A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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A giant hot tub is more fun than a glacial lake
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
A giant hot tub is more fun than a glacial lake
And supports no life of significant size! Wheee fuck you, anything that lives.
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
A giant hot tub is more fun than a glacial lake
Not sure about this
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@TimeBandit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
A giant hot tub is more fun than a glacial lake
Not sure about this
Consider, you could both punch one another and swing sticks around even without the lake.
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@TimeBandit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
A giant hot tub is more fun than a glacial lake
Not sure about this
As a young teenager (~14), I went on a week-long Boy Scout backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Mid-week the adult leaders required we all take showers (one at a time, wearing swimsuits, so no ) under a waterfall. The waterfall was downstream of a glacial lake at an elevation of 3106 m (10190 ft.). The water in the lake had been "warming" in the sun all summer, but it was probably still only maybe 4 or 5ยฐC (39-41ยฐF). I'll take a hot tub, giant or otherwise, over a glacial lake any day.
Google Maps: The red marker is the lake, Roosevelt Lake. Conness Creek flows out of it to the south; it has no streams flowing into it, just snowmelt. The small gray marker is the approximate location of the waterfall, from memory, almost 50 years later; it's small, only maybe 3-5m (10-15 feet) high, not big enough to be shown on any maps or satellite pictures. It might be a little further downstream, after Conness Creek is joined by the smaller, unnamed creek visible west of the lake. The white area north and northeast of Mt. Conness is Conness Glacier. Smaller white patches are just snow, not glaciers.The worst part wasn't even the waterfall; it was the cold water we had to wade in, and the sharp, slippery rocks in the water, to get under the waterfall. That was, by far, the quickest shower I've ever taken in my life, probably <5 seconds. Did I get clean to any significant degree? No. Did I care? No. Did I want to get out of that cold water as fast as possible? YES!
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.17 a coin. Still ahead but no money for skittles now. If it falls to .14 I might become destitute.
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There. Just wanted to get that off my system.
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
.17 a coin. Still ahead but no money for skittles now. If it falls to .14 I might become destitute.
Can you organize a quick pump? That's the usual practice.
"organize"
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@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
DogsBcoin
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There. Just wanted to get that off my system.
Hopefully DogsBoing! soon.
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
turns excrement into ... digital currency
But they repeat themselves.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Well, if the price goes up enough... you can find a greater fool to sell to.
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Buying used hardware as well.
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.15! Almost destitute!
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@JBert said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
threaten future of all cryptocurrencies
And nothing of (real) value was lost. Except a lot of energy wasted creating nothing out of nothing.
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
.15! Almost destitute!
D-E-S! T-I-T! U-T-I-O-N-๐ง-โฐ!
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
six people, all of whom were charged with stealing electricity supply and "fined up to RM8,000 [$1,900 USD] and jailed for up to eight months," according to a translated version of the report.
Those seizures pale in comparison to the roughly $408 million (ยฃ320 million) worth of cryptocurrency
Who said crime doesn't pay?
That's some mighty fine ROI with those ludicrously low fines.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Who said crime doesn't pay?
That's some mighty fine ROI with those ludicrously low fines.The $408 million isn't from that seizure.
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Bonus almost garage worthy tweet thread!
I am often asked if I will โreturn to cryptocurrencyโ or begin regularly sharing my thoughts on the topic again. My answer is a wholehearted โnoโ, but to avoid repeating myself I figure it might be worthwhile briefly explaining why hereโฆ
After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity.
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Bonus almost garage worthy tweet thread!
I am often asked if I will โreturn to cryptocurrencyโ or begin regularly sharing my thoughts on the topic again. My answer is a wholehearted โnoโ, but to avoid repeating myself I figure it might be worthwhile briefly explaining why hereโฆ
After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently
right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity.Minor correction but he's not wrong.
Doge is .13 now. I'm offically a fool!
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Who said crime doesn't pay?
That's some mighty fine ROI with those ludicrously low fines.
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@error said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Who said crime doesn't pay?
That's some mighty fine ROI with those ludicrously low fines.Woohoo! I'm'a go sleep under a bridge!
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@error said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Who said crime doesn't pay?
That's some mighty fine ROI with those ludicrously low fines.Woohoo! I'm'a go sleep under a bridge!
No sleeping under the bridge, sir!
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@error said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Who said crime doesn't pay?
That's some mighty fine ROI with those ludicrously low fines.Woohoo! I'm'a go sleep under a bridge!
No sleeping under the bridge, sir!
Ah, good evening officer. When is the benefit this year?
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@error said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Who said crime doesn't pay?
That's some mighty fine ROI with those ludicrously low fines.Woohoo! I'm'a go sleep under a bridge!
No sleeping under the bridge, sir!
Ah, good evening officer. When is the benefit this year?
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@error said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Who said crime doesn't pay?
That's some mighty fine ROI with those ludicrously low fines.I knew a guy who used the carpool lane on the regular. He made enough money that the fine was no big deal, and he'd be happy to pay a bit of money every now and then if he got to skip some traffic every day. And then... he just never got pulled over. The ROI on being a scofflaw was great!
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@PotatoEngineer said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@error said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Who said crime doesn't pay?
That's some mighty fine ROI with those ludicrously low fines.I knew a guy who used the carpool lane on the regular. He made enough money that the fine was no big deal, and he'd be happy to pay a bit of money every now and then if he got to skip some traffic every day. And then... he just never got pulled over. The ROI on being a scofflaw was great!
Sinking costs is pretty cool.
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Guess who's trying to regulate themselves out of the market again?
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Good. If Bitcoin etc wants to pretend to be real money, it gets to be regulated like it.
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Doge is .15. Back in the black baby!
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Doge is .15. Back in the
blackrainbow baby!
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Good. If Bitcoin etc wants to pretend to be real money, it gets to be regulated like it.
Doesn't that defeat the whole point, though?
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@error said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Good. If Bitcoin etc wants to pretend to be real money, it gets to be regulated like it.
Doesn't that defeat the whole point, though?
They'll just find a new vehicle for Ponzi schemes. Actually helps keep the suckers unawares.
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Doge is .15.
Much like my blood alcohol level.
Back in the black baby!
I really need to see a doctor about that.
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Guess who's trying to regulate themselves out of the market again?
While the EU is trying to reduce the crypto money laundering, MasterCard is like "hold my beer":
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@error said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Good. If Bitcoin etc wants to pretend to be real money, it gets to be regulated like it.
Doesn't that defeat the whole point, though?
Yes. What a shame.
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@error said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Good. If Bitcoin etc wants to pretend to be real money, it gets to be regulated like it.
Doesn't that defeat the whole point, though?
They'll just find a new vehicle for Ponzi schemes. Actually helps keep the suckers unawares.
As long as I can still buy black tar heroin on the deep web with it.
Filed under: Hm, maybe this explains the back in the black thing.
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I have heard from what I consider to be a reliable source that video card prices are about to start coming back to normal. With China cracking down on illegal cryptocurrency operations they're no longer soaking up all the stock. Apparently there's a shipment of Nvidia RTX 3060 cards that were supposed to be sold in China that's been turned around in transit and heading to the USA and lots of future shipments that would have went that way have been cancelled.
Hopefully the prices start coming down to reasonable levels very soon because I will have to purchase a dozen or so cards in the near future.
Also of note is that I was told to be very leery of the used market in the next 6-12 months. It seems there will be former Chinese mining cards being sold soon. Ones that have been rode hard and put up wet. Caveat emptor and all that.
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Meanwhile in Malaysia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tcg9kOfkg
Miri police disposed of 1,069 bitcoin machines worth RM5.3 million which involved seizures during February to April this year in the Miri district.
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Meanwhile 5 days ago...
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@Polygeekery said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I will have to purchase a dozen or so cards in the near future
Starting bitcoin mining?
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@Polygeekery said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Also of note is that I was told to be very leery of the used market in the next 6-12 months. It seems there will be former Chinese mining cards being sold soon. Ones that have been rode hard and put up wet. Caveat emptor and all that.
I saw an article where someone bought a used crypto video card, and apparently it worked fine. My single vaguely-recalled anecdote overcomes all data! So there's no such thing as capacitors wearing out anymore, and the article I read definitely didn't take longer than a ~month to test the card. (So you could get lucky and have a fine card, even if it was heavily used for crypto. You could also drive to Vegas and bet it all on black. 50% odds are good enough, right?)
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@PotatoEngineer and what is more, you'll be a man, my son.
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@PotatoEngineer said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Polygeekery said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Also of note is that I was told to be very leery of the used market in the next 6-12 months. It seems there will be former Chinese mining cards being sold soon. Ones that have been rode hard and put up wet. Caveat emptor and all that.
I saw an article where someone bought a used crypto video card, and apparently it worked fine. My single vaguely-recalled anecdote overcomes all data! So there's no such thing as capacitors wearing out anymore, and the article I read definitely didn't take longer than a ~month to test the card. (So you could get lucky and have a fine card, even if it was heavily used for crypto. You could also drive to Vegas and bet it all on black.
5047.37% odds are good enough, right?)