@mlanger #UnpopularOpinion: I'd rather choose death than touch #MicrosoftOffice ever in my life again
But yeah: #LyingWithNumbers is a real thing and I kniw how to do it on accident and on purpose...
“The number of network connections required to @Microsoft and @Skype servers, to get Word just to start, is now 31. You can no longer say "I don´t want to send diagnostic data", then Word just quits silently. (Please spare me the Open/LibreOffice gospel, it does not apply here.)”
@cryptadamist Yes, but:
It's just short-term luck and is also known as "Gambler's Fallacy"...
IOW: They just did #LyingWithNumbers...
OSINT confirms that #Qubic is lying and did not achieve a #51Percent majority in the #Monero network.
At peak they had 40%, and as of that post only about 30%
#TLDR: Qubic used "#SelfishMining" and had a streak of luck! Not to mention said blicks didn't get included in the blockchain anyway, so all it did was "#LyingWithNumbers" in some stats that rely on self-reported claims instead of actual evidence.
IOW: Just because one got 51 of 100 blocks at some arbitrary timeframe doesn't mean one "owns" 51% of the network hashrate!
Already the cost of this operation is estimated to be U$D 150M per day to fake sad #51PercentAttack and the success entirely predicated on #FUD.
#Sarcasm #Cryptocurrency #Crypto #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #Propaganda
@threetails @ChrisMayLA6 and the worst part is: said politicions know they are lying!
@anon_opin nodds in agrement
It's just #LyingWithNumbers inthe cheapest way possible...
@fuchsiii the nice part is that this allows #LyingWithNumbers.
Nevermind the #ReducedLifecycle and the entire production chain can never offset such a high failure rate, but those don't show up on #EnergyBills, #PowerMeters and the like...
@mircoxi it should not be a fineable offense, because a fine means it's only illegal for small/"poor" corporations.
It's the #HR equivalent of #MarkToMarketAccounting...
I think #reproduceability and #OpenData should be mandatory #transparency in terms of #science, discouraging "#LyingWithNumbers" and encouraging a healthy discussion re: data sources as well...
@fennix on paper they can only do that by economies if scale and streamlined logistics as they like a small crocery buy from the same B2B wholesalers.
In the end ist's convenient numbers' shuffling aka. #LyingWithNumbers by omnission and sewed data.
Also the "carbon-friendlyness" is something with absurdly diverging data for comparison: Shure if people drive a #SuperUselessVehicle like an F-350 RAM 3500 just to get a bag of toast and milk, even a Parcel Delivery with a Model T using leaded fuel is emitting less #CO2 but if you have their target audience of above-average income city center yuppies that may not even own a car and most likely just a bike if not shop on foot or public transport or a big family buying food in bulk for 2 weeks at a time, this while marketing may become questionable.
Kevin Karhan 