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if your supa computer coin has fake pedo stories that you have to whack-a-mole regularly , maybe your coin is bad?
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Jul 12, 2022 06:00
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Honeypotted in the rear end by an anthropomorphic blockchain named "Blockchain"
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Jul 12, 2022 06:03
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Cat Hatter posted:What was the other one? That guy who went to South America, sexually assaulted a little girl, and then used Bitcoin to help him flee across the border? as I recall it was the guy who sold gemstones for buttcoins
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Jul 12, 2022 06:08
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catspleen posted:Found it on r/buttcoin So the sister he spends so much time describing was 15. And he's a 23 year old virgin. Shows what type of people Bitcoin enthusiasts are that he'd include those details in a story he made up. Still curious what the other success story was.
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Jul 12, 2022 06:11
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Yeah that was quite gross. I didn’t recall that level of detail. Or that he was supposedly 23 at the time. At least it didn’t happen. So it is just a really gross Bitscoin fantasy?
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Jul 12, 2022 06:18
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vortmax posted:we don't talk about
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Jul 12, 2022 06:23
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vortmax posted:we don't talk about yeah that was a fun time, you basically had one goon who set up a bitcoin gem store as a joke, then another goon who bought from the bitcoin gem store as a joke
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Jul 12, 2022 06:41
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Rad Russian posted:No one is checking out the hotly anticipated Gamestop NFTs that finally launched today after years in the works? WIth an absolutely impeccable market timing too. Even Reddit seems to have a substantial portion of commentators saying that the store is full of worthless garbage. I did find this excellent quote in the comments over on Kotaku: Some dude on the internet posted:It’s almost like a form of wealth redistribution from simpletons to the unscrupulous
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Jul 12, 2022 07:30
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evilweasel posted:because there were trillions of it in circulation so you could multiply those fractions of a penny by a trillion I'm going to throw out a hot take and say that it was a smart move from their position. If they hit the jackpot, they could have walked away tens of millions of dollars richer (if they could cash out... which, lol, but cryptidiots are all operating under the assumption that the completely unregulated market they're speculating on will do the noble thing and allow them to actually get the money when they cash out). But if they ate poo poo (like they did), who cares? Sure, they lost a comparatively small amount of money and burnt their stupid scam company to the ground, but I'm willing to bet it wasn't their money that went up in smoke. I mean, it was obviously a stupid loving plan doomed to failure from the start, but purely based on the risk-reward to them, personally? Yeah, I totally get why a bunch of brainwormed cryptobros would go for it. From the perspective of someone who drank the Flavor-Aid, they'd have been stupid not to bet it all on trying to pull off the grift of a lifetime. To be clear: this is not even remotely an endorsement of cryptocurrency. This is why it's a festering tumor eating the human race from its bowels.
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Jul 12, 2022 07:49
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Nah it really is dumb as gently caress to try to short any crypto because the markets are so manipulated. A 100% crash in value and you managed to hit every brief uptick on the way down? Certainly couldn't have been your own or other exchanges front-running it to wipe out your short.
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Jul 12, 2022 08:42
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gonna go out on a limb and say that the company who somehow managed to lose literally everything trying to short a crashing asset didn't play their hand very smartly
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Jul 12, 2022 08:49
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Time_pants posted:I'm going to throw out a hot take and say that it was a smart move from their position. Hahaha what? No, it wasn't.
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Jul 12, 2022 09:05
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Angela Merkle Tree posted:Nah it really is dumb as gently caress to try to short any crypto because the markets are so manipulated. A 100% crash in value and you managed to hit every brief uptick on the way down? Certainly couldn't have been your own or other exchanges front-running it to wipe out your short. Yeah, every single aspect of crypto is crooked as gently caress, though the rhetoric is about the same as usual capitalist libertarian ideas of the ~free market~ being perfectly fair and so on. Which apparently fools enough people.
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Jul 12, 2022 09:19
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HappyHippo posted:I don't touch the poop so I can't be sure, but from my understanding you can (could lol) in fact hold regular USD in your account at Voyager, either after you fund it by putting money in, or after you sell stuff. That money was insured in the event of MCB's failure (but, crucially, not Voyager's). looks like MCB put out a statement saying exactly that. https://www.mcbankny.com/fdic-coverage-available-to-voyager-customers/ so in the event voyager are insolvent the fdic insurance is meaningless. any assets will be paid out to creditors as with any other bankruptcy.
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Jul 12, 2022 09:53
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The Guardian has a hilarious (and genuinely sad) article about a crypto rehab that's just a few miles from me. It's quite long but well worth the time as it has some classic quotes in it. Here's just one... quote:They gather on Telegram to let out howls of grief and short, sharp shrieks of pain. “Eeeeeeee!” yowls a young woman. “Waahahahah,” roars a man in a deep baritone. A third person wails like a baby. These are victims of the cryptocurrency bloodbath, 3,315 of whom have assembled in a “Bear Market Screaming Therapy Group” group to vent their anguish. Crypto rehab
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Jul 12, 2022 10:05
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https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1546595734992162817
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Jul 12, 2022 10:09
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Hmm squeeze the twink til the cream comes out
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Jul 12, 2022 10:14
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Hmm squeeze the twink til the cream comes out squart
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Jul 12, 2022 10:16
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Finally a coin I can get behind.
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Jul 12, 2022 10:21
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Neito posted:I think that was when OLEDs were bigger? Cus IIRC LCD doesn't use more/less electricty based on the color of the pixel, but OLEDs do. Nessus posted:Yeah a lot of that stuff seemed to be from when everything was a CRT or OLED and I guess technology actually did sort of address that one kind of. LCD screens have a constant backlight, with a filter (the liquid crystal layer) in front of it that blocks the light (producing black pixels). The energy to light that pixel gets expended either way, whether the content is black or white. OLED is a newer technology and is in many cell phones, this is where black backgrounds save energy because each pixel is its own light source. OLED is very uncommon for computer monitors, I think there are only two (pretty expensive) models available right now. Criss-cross fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/christianity-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-baptism.htmlquote:Melder also believes Bitcoin has “all the trappings of religion,” something a number of other commentators have argued. There is a prophet, Satoshi Nakamoto, the still-anonymous founder of Bitcoin. There is a sacred text, Nakamoto’s white paper, the first published blueprint for the cryptocurrency quote:There is even a self-proclaimed “Church of Bitcoin,” a small online community established by Henry Romp, a 30-year-old software developer who lives in Middlebury, Vermont. Romp infrequently holds “audio services” on Twitter during which he reads from Nakamoto’s famed 2008 white paper. Why settle for one cult when you can combine two that taste great together.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Hmm squeeze the twink til the cream comes out I need a moment to compose myself
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Jul 12, 2022 12:31
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Criss-cross posted:LCD screens have a constant backlight, with a filter (the liquid crystal layer) in front of it that blocks the light (producing black pixels). The energy to light that pixel gets expended either way, whether the content is black or white. Yeah this. OLED is the newer, more advanced tech but it's only common in brand new 4k TVs and poo poo, not monitors so much. I don't know enough about it to know why, but I assume cost to the consumer makes it a tough sell.
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Jul 12, 2022 12:34
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putin is a oval office posted:Yeah this. OLED is the newer, more advanced tech but it's only common in brand new 4k TVs and poo poo, not monitors so much. I don't know enough about it to know why, but I assume cost to the consumer makes it a tough sell. There's a Switch model with it too! Presumably part of it is standard supply chain stuff; the factories are still switching over, especially given Covid.
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Jul 12, 2022 12:44
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Blackle claims to have saved over 8.5 MWh of electrical energy as of January 2021.
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Jul 12, 2022 12:45
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putin is a oval office posted:Yeah this. OLED is the newer, more advanced tech but it's only common in brand new 4k TVs and poo poo, not monitors so much. I don't know enough about it to know why, but I assume cost to the consumer makes it a tough sell. Mostly cos Windows is pretty poo poo at HDR. It's badly supported, barely works, and generally is not much point for normal deskwork to be dealing with brighter-than-paperwhite anyway. That makes the monitors a niche graphics thing. Source - I have one cos I do HDR graphics things (I know all about the maths behind it too). I mostly hate it. Occasionally you get some nice looking stuff. There is finally a free windows viewer for JXR files so you can see HDR images in all their glory, but its all clunky and a bit bad. To be honest, many programs struggle to handle 4k monitors as my aging eyes need such large fonts the UI breaks, even though if it were on an identically sized non-4k screen it would be perfectly fine with writing the same apparent size.
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Jul 12, 2022 12:59
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Yeah, no. If I'm a queer person in that room I definately let them do it.
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Jul 12, 2022 13:07
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putin is a oval office posted:Hahaha what? No, it wasn't. Yeah, I thought about what I was trying to say, and I'm just being an idiot.
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Jul 12, 2022 13:08
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making physical coin-shaped objects in honor of crypto, the currency known for not existing physically as part of its gimmick, seems really loving backwards love it
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Jul 12, 2022 13:12
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it's like snack cakes Poochy
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Jul 12, 2022 13:13
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Time_pants posted:Yeah, I thought about what I was trying to say, and I'm just being an idiot. To be fair I was being glib and I do see what you were getting at, that they were already losing so much that the gamble seemed worth it. But chasing losses is never a smart move.
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putin is a oval office posted:Yeah this. OLED is the newer, more advanced tech but it's only common in brand new 4k TVs and poo poo, not monitors so much. I don't know enough about it to know why, but I assume cost to the consumer makes it a tough sell. It's because OLED screens burn-in pretty easily (because the individual subpixels lose brightness through aging when they're used), and computers tend to display static content (like the taskbar, or window titles) for many hours. All my OLED phones had faintly visible burn-in after a while. Criss-cross fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Jul 12, 2022 13:32
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Criss-cross posted:It's because OLED screens burn-in pretty easily (because the individual subpixels lose brightness through aging when they're used), and computers tend to display static content (like the taskbar, or window titles) for many hours. That seems to be getting better. I used to do cell phone repair, and on Samsung Galaxy phones prior to the S10, I’d see burn in all the time. S10 and later it’s increasingly rare. And I’ve never seen it on an OLED iPhone. Oddly, we did have an iPhone where we replaced the screen and the new screen looked like it had burn-in. We had copied data from the old screen to the new one, and the problem repeated if we copied data to another screen, but didn’t happen if we left it “blank.” So it looks like maybe the iPhone has some kind of image processing where it figures out what pixels are likely burning out and adjusts the display accordingly. But it’s a big problem for old people who set their display to never turn off for some reason, and it’s just showing a home screen constantly.
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My last few phones up until my current Samsung A71 5G were Pixels, and my Pixel 3 XL had HORRIBLE burn in. It's one of the major (multiple) reasons I stopped buying Pixels. It's not like I always had it on, but just using it in the car was enough - the Google maps interface was permanently stuck on the screen.
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Jul 12, 2022 16:24
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I had a 3A and it was awful all around, barely lasted a year. The cheap motorola I replaced it with is over 2 years old now and still gets a full day out of the battery. Don't buy google phones.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I had a 3A and it was awful all around, barely lasted a year. The cheap motorola I replaced it with is over 2 years old now and still gets a full day out of the battery. I've heard nothing but bad things about the pixel. You'd think if Google wants to break into this market they'd bring something to the table.
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