A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
It's actually alright. Fucking with lower sapients
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@Applied-Mediocrity 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:
It's actually alright. Fucking with lower sapients
The gif-maker messed up.
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@dcon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Applied-Mediocrity 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:
It's actually alright. Fucking with lower sapients
The gif-maker messed up.
s/BONK/CLUE/
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Thought you were safe on linux?
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@dcon exploiting some exploits disclosed last year so if you've been updating looks like you should be OK, but that would also explain the prominence of IOT attacks.
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@boomzilla Yeah, the IoS thread would have been better...
Voyager Customers With Frozen Savings on ‘Edge of Seat’ Ahead of Auction
Retirement money, down payments for homes and kids’ college tuition are locked up in bankrupt digital currency broker as potential bidders emerge.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/technology/ethereum-merge-crypto.html
Nature is healing! Now come reinflate the bubble we got stuck on the wrong side of!
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@izzion It was a great disturbance in the Blockchain, as if millions of miners suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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Not sure how it will turn out for the miners in the Ethereum, but they're not worth a damn in my opinion.
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I’m too to work around the paywall, but even the teaser is Grade SSS material
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethers-new-staking-model-could-draw-sec-attention-11663266224
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/technology/ethereum-merge-crypto.html
Nature is healing! Now come reinflate the bubble we got stuck on the wrong side of!
Wait, what!? I thought the entire point of crypto-switching-to-proof-of-stake was that there were giant, well-entrenched interests that always successfully torpedo the switch!
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@PotatoEngineer said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
the entire point of crypto-switching-to-proof-of-stake was that there were giant, well-entrenched interests that always successfully torpedo the switch
Dunno man. Where are we in the season? The writers might be setting up a twist.
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Crypto theft goes retro.
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Life in the Caymans must be so rough for this guy…
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Time to reset the sign to zero days!!!
Fortunately, the guy who resets the sign never has to do anything. Perfect job
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@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Not sure how it will turn out for the miners in the Ethereum, but they're not worth a damn in my opinion.
Anyone in the market for a gaming GPU? Now might be the time.
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@PotatoEngineer said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
the entire point of crypto-switching-to-proof-of-stake was that there were giant, well-entrenched interests that always successfully torpedo the switch
Dunno man. Where are we in the season? The writers might be setting up a twist.
I'm sure the TOR-pedos will still have a role to play.
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Time to reset the sign to zero days!!!
Fortunately, the guy who resets the sign never has to do anything. Perfect job
Y’all named it Wintermute, what the fuck did you think you were doing? Or how you thought that could possibly end?
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Time to reset the sign to zero days!!!
Fortunately, the guy who resets the sign never has to do anything. Perfect job
Y’all named it Wintermute, what the fuck did you think you were doing? Or how you thought that could possibly end?
End? Is everyone dead yet?
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@Gribnit Case, at least, survives. I don’t remember much else about the ending of Neuromancer but it still seemed like a really dumb thing to call a currency after…
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Case, at least, survives.
Eh, he was already dead.
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Y’all named it Wintermute
What is this trend anyway where everyone names their things after the most dystopian novels they can find? Something something not an instruction manual and all.
That said, Wintermute's kind of cool, it hangs around in space and builds weird things, I can get behind that. Using the name for a
get-rich-quick money laundering toycrypto market maker is insulting, though.
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Case, at least, survives.
Eh, he was already dead.
No you're getting confused, that one's Dixie Flatline.
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@ixvedeusi the clue being in the name
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Case, at least, survives. I don’t remember much else about the ending of Neuromancer
Molly also survives.
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@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Case, at least, survives. I don’t remember much else about the ending of Neuromancer
Molly also survives.
Case's brain is still too wrecked to do useful work though. Is the point. He was effectively dead from the start.
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Case's brain is still too wrecked to do useful work though. Is the point.
Yes, he has to get an ordinary job and an ordinary life.
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@dkf 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:
Case's brain is still too wrecked to do useful work though. Is the point.
Yes, he has to get an ordinary job and an ordinary life.
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
And suddenly there was enough power so CA could charge its cars.
(INB4 the power network doesn't work that way, )
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Now this is how you run a Ponzi scheme... just blow all the money and claim you're too
stupiddisorganized to know what you owe who...
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@TimeBandit if you keep going north for a really long way you do eventually end up in Texas.
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Rolling (my own crypto) on the floor laughing!
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@TimeBandit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Compute North
Looks at the article
Texas
Reaction of :
It's North of "The Border"...
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@dcon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
It's North of "The
BorderWall"...FTFY
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
A vulnerability disclosed in Profanity
Bad news for @Polygeekery (and others).
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@TimeBandit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@dcon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
It's North of "The
BorderWall"...FTFY
And just like crypto, The Wall is just useless air!
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
The terms of Moore's investment included a 70-30 split on any capital gains (with 70 per cent for her and 30 per cent for Pleterski), a commitment the initial investment would be paid back in full if it was lost, and target capital gains of 10 to 20 per cent biweekly, according to her investment contract.
20% every two weeks, or 11,400% a year.
If you believe that, you're definitely thread title material.Pleterski told the meeting he'd never owned a Patek Philippe watch and that "he has never owned a watch with a value greater than $600,000."
I mean, why would such a thing even exist?
Looking at this little fucker in a private jet, you almost regret not having the criminal energy to con people like that.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
[a watch with a value greater than $600,000] I mean, why would such a thing even exist?
Some people do have the criminal energy to con people like that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av3k_lcGm9g
(sigh. YouTube integration is broken again.)
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
again
... again? Was it fixed? Investors want to know!
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Pleterski told the meeting he'd never owned a Patek Philippe watch and that "he has never owned a watch with a value greater than $600,000."
I mean, why would such a thing even exist?
Because wanking the ego of entitled little cunts is a need the 'conomy has to satisfy is why.
And off with you to !
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@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Because wanking the ego of entitled little cunts is
a need the 'conomy has to satisfya great way to separate them from their excess money is why.IMO makers of overpriced vanity goods are doing a valuable service to society by taking money from people who obviously don't need it and redistributing it among their workers, suppliers and shareholders / owners; and often also funding charities and cultural activities. E. g. one of the families (privately) owning a luxury watch company apparently is a big (and very discreet) sponsor of a huge amount of cultural events of all kinds here.
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@ixvedeusi Yes and no. Most private "investors" who readily gave the little cunts all that money deserve to be scammed and ridiculed for it. A pension fund that will never get the money back because of gullible morons in charge probably causes more grief than it does good, however.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Yes and no. Most private "investors" who readily gave the little cunts all that money deserve to be scammed and ridiculed for it.
I think you misunderstood me; I wasn't talking about the little cunts taking money from the investors, but about the luxury watch companies wanking the little cunts' egos to take exorbitant sums from them.
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@ixvedeusi said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Because wanking the ego of entitled little cunts is
a need the 'conomy has to satisfya great way to separate them from their excess money is why.IMO makers of overpriced vanity goods are doing a valuable service to society by taking money from people who obviously don't need it and redistributing it among their workers, suppliers and shareholders / owners; and often also funding charities and cultural activities. E. g. one of the families (privately) owning a luxury watch company apparently is a big (and very discreet) sponsor of a huge amount of cultural events of all kinds here.
If you already presume some objective measure of "need", I'd say don't give people money they don't need to begin with, instead of employing a whole lot of people to make stuff the former don't need either
But yeah,
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@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
If you already presume some objective measure of "need",
The only "objective measure of need" I'm presuming is that they are apparently OK with spending it on overpriced gadgets, which is actually a subjective measure of "need".