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CountryMatters posted:legit question is there still a market for scientific calculators? like they cost as much as a mobile phone and have vastly less computing ability right? graphing calculators are dead, scientific calculators are still useful for the great interface. The casio fx-115 is like $12 and perfect in every way.
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I think schools loan out the calculators now.
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Bring back the slide rule imo.
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Darth TNT posted:
It's filled with hope. Somehow those tweets filled them with hope instead of the obvious.
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Marklar posted:It's filled with hope. Somehow those tweets filled them with hope instead of the obvious. If they were capable of good judgement they wouldn't have been in in the first place.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:The copium with bankrupt crypto companies is beyond anything I can describe. It's literally people whose mindset is never anything other than "it must go up". It's equivalent to betting on black in roulette 100% of the time and expecting to get ahead despite the probability then being below 50%, and when they win saying "see it goes up" and when they lose doubling up or going silent.
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# ? Jul 15, 2022 14:38 |
lmao Celsius Owes $4.7 Billion to Users But Doesn't Have Money to Pay Them https://gizmodo.com/celsius-bankrupt-billion-money-crypto-bitcoin-price-cel-1849181797 quote:Celsius, the crypto trading platform that halted all withdrawals a month ago and filed for bankruptcy yesterday, has a $1.2 billion sized hole in its balance sheet, according to a bankruptcy filing and new report from the Financial Times. What does that mean for users? You’re probably not getting all your money back, if you see some at all.
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Durzel posted:I thought I'd check the Celsius (CEL) token today because the company behind it has gone bankrupt, and naturally a coin that has no other function except within that ecosystem must surely be in the toilet, right? It's up 28% today. I think there's a decent amount of overlap between crypto and r/wallstreetbets, which made good buying up shares in Hertz after it declared bankruptcy. In Hertz's case it was because unrelated economic conditions led to re-inflating the company's assets (its income stream had dried up due to the pandemic curtailing travel which led them to file for bankruptcy, but as new car production slowed down its vehicle fleet suddenly became worth $$$$), but I suspect a lot of online speculators took the wrong lesson from the whole thing.
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I like that they can't say "stole" yet and have to say "owes." Fun fact, it was a grift the whole time with the seed concept of stealing. But people are worried cause they might get sued buy the scam "company." e, quote:Did you catch all that? You weren’t buying crypto and having Celsius hold it for you. You were transferring “right and title” of your crypto to the company. loving LOL! wallet inspectors all the way down to the bottom. LifeSunDeath fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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Seth Pecksniff posted:lmao Transferrring right and title of assets in anticipation of a business investing those assets to generate a return sounds extremely like a security, not a commodity. Investopedia says the test used is the Howey test and if an investment meets the following, it is a security: 1) An investment of money 2) In a common enterprise 3) With the expectation of profit 4) To be derived from the efforts of others Celsius certainly meets 1, 2, and 3. The question is if it meets 4, which I think it would since its (ostensible) sources of income were so varied.
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LifeSunDeath posted:kevin never been funny, the rock is 10x funnier and he's not even really that funny. Oh, word?
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Hasn't Tether also got literal billions of dollars worth of money owed that it obviously doesn't have? I do wonder how many times of this it'd take to kill crypto the way NFTs are down to the bagholders and johnny come latelies.
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Has anyone said crapto coin yet?
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Seth Pecksniff posted:lmao Those people aren't getting even
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Hasn't Tether also got literal billions of dollars worth of money owed that it obviously doesn't have? Celsius was a scam bank and Tether is a scam currency accepted by all of the scam banks but yeah, similar concept. Tether is just a 15x larger scam.
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Darth TNT posted:Those people aren't getting even I will be surprised if there's enough to cover their top tier creditors after everything is liquidated. The people who rented them office furniture are getting pennies on the dollar and they're getting those pennies before the people who actually gave them money see anything back.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:lmao quote:Oddly enough, Celsius says it wants to reorganize and bounce back as a company after all of this is done. But it’s tough to imagine anyone wanting to invest their money in a place that just made so many billions of dollars disappear.
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Darth TNT posted:Those people aren't getting even The bankruptcy settlement will be that Celsius buys everyone a SA account
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It's like an Onion headline: Area crypto bank can't understand why customers would want to be able to use their money.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Fun fact, it was a grift the whole time with the seed concept of stealing. It was a kleptocurrency
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HappyHippo posted:For an actually interesting idea regarding elections, there's a concept called "Homomorphic encryption," where you can do calculations on data that's encrypted. If it works, you'd be able to verify that your vote was tallied without it ever being revealed who you voted for: gently caress's sake people. Pen and paper. Have scrutineers from each party in the room during the count. Use watermarked numbered ballot paper that are assigned to a voting site and a process to account for spoiled ballots, use the two man rule to move votes around and secure numbered tags to seal boxes when they're unaccompanied. If you want a recount, just count the ballots again because you keep the hard copies in storage for a year or two after the election. Votes don't go missing because the ballots are numbered and votes don't get changed because no one is ever alone with them. The only technology you might consider is an electronic voting roll so you can mark off people as they vote rather than reconciling all the rolls after the election. Even this is optional, you could just mark their hand with ink to prevent revoting if you want to go super low tech. (Although duplicate voting is insanely rare despite what angsty right wingers might claim.) Democracy isn't hard. Pen and paper is completely transparent to everyone but as soon as you add any technology it becomes completely opaque and therefore untrustworthy to a large chunk of the population.
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Party Ape posted:gently caress's sake people. Pen and paper. Have scrutineers from each party in the room during the count. Use watermarked numbered ballot paper that are assigned to a voting site and a process to account for spoiled ballots, use the two man rule to move votes around and secure numbered tags to seal boxes when they're unaccompanied. If you want a recount, just count the ballots again because you keep the hard copies in storage for a year or two after the election. I never understood why voting systems seemed to get needlessly complicated. I'm in Canada and the federal and provincial elections are all run by a non partisan commission. The ballots are simple and you just mark an x in a large circle next to your choice (with a provided pencil!). The ballot gets folded, the receipt is removed so the ballot can be accounted for, and is dropped in a box. They split up the polling stations to be small enough groups that there is rarely much of a wait if at all on voting day and provide several early voting times along with mail in. It's not hard!! Granted it's a smaller population but scaling that up isn't rocket science.
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voting being opaque and untrustworthy is a feature not a bug for an ideological movement seeking to build popular support for terminating democracy
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:voting being opaque and untrustworthy is a feature not a bug for an ideological movement seeking to build popular support for terminating democracy Granted, but people keep going "ok it's bad but it will be better if we add yet another opaque complex system over the top".
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Crypto people are probably pretty "meh" on this whole "democracy" thing (what if a poor votes?) but would love to be able to use a "security concern," such as has been floated in an effort to dog on democracy as a concept, to sell their buttcoins as a solution and make money for doing nothing.
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My friend bought a Bitcoin miner that doesn't even mine Bitcoin. https://ipollo.com/products/ipollo-g1-mini I guess electricity is cheap enough where he is that he thought dipping his toe in with an entry-level model might somehow pencil out? But he finally gets the thing and realizes that it's programmed to mine something called "grin coin," which is another shitcoin trying to do anonymous transactions somehow. And the website also doesn't show that it's got one of those godawful pixel-art "crypto punks" plastered across the top of it. I wonder if the person who owns that particular JPEG URL is making royalties off it like promised. Lord Stimperor posted:Confession: I would have liked nfts for use cases like media and software licenses. That's what gets me; the closest "practical" applications I see people pushing are like a weird form of meta-consumption, and it's not just "play to earn" either. I saw some smug coiner on Twitter arguing that blockchain-based subscription services would be revolutionary, because they would enable you to sell the remainder of your subscription if you got tired of it (or it somehow went up in value!) before it had expired. Or the hexagon-avatar dude who spent an entire issue of his Substack letter trying to convince people that NFT projects had it made because being able to see who owned what NFTs on the public blockchain would enable all kinds of wonderful brand collaborations. Never mind that fashion is almost as ephemeral as any digital good. It all feels out of touch in a deeply fundamental way. Like, of course this is what people who never leave their San Francisco or Brooklyn apartments and transact entirely through phone apps would come up with. I guess that's late capitalism in a nutshell: there is nothing left to do but consume, so let's enable the consumer to make money off their consumption!
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istewart posted:My friend bought a Bitcoin miner that doesn't even mine Bitcoin. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/grin/ About 3 years too late.
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istewart posted:My friend bought a Bitcoin miner that doesn't even mine Bitcoin. so he couldn't even be bothered to read the specifications of the thing before spending $299?
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LordArgh posted:so he couldn't even be bothered to read the specifications of the thing before spending $299? BarnumCoin is holding steady. If mining with a certain rig was profitable, nobody in their right mind would sell it.
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I'm seeing a parallel between the """art""" NFTs and the reselling-digital-items NFTs - they both take a physical concept that makes sense, and try to recreate it in a digital way that is stupid. With physical art, the concept of "the original" is objectively meaningful (or at least it can be). We can then ascribe whatever cachet we like to that. NFTs try to shoehorn the concept into the digital world, where it doesn't make any sense. Similarly, publishers are forced to allow people to resell books/DVDs/N64 games because of the physical reality of objects. Cryptobros seem to dream of recreating this compulsion because [handwave] and then they'll have no choice!! Governments could pass laws about some kind of right of digital transfer, but it wouldn't involve blockchains. Party Ape posted:Granted, but people keep going "ok it's bad but it will be better if we add yet another opaque complex system over the top". Sadly, even without anyone trying to swing an election, people will keep seeing the very solid system you describe, and decide it's antiquated and silly and we have cyber now, and surely technology's moved on since you last explained why this is a terrible idea (cf Tom Scott's video and follow-up).
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istewart posted:My friend bought a Bitcoin miner that doesn't even mine Bitcoin. lol that someone actually bought a miner specifically for a dead shitcoin, or that these even exist at all
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istewart posted:My friend bought a Bitcoin miner that doesn't even mine Bitcoin. I hate to say it, but I think your friend might be a massive loving idiot.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:I hate to say it, but I think your friend might be a massive loving idiot. Everybody needs one of these friends for entertainment and to keep current on what the idiots are getting suckered into.
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Jeffrey where's our GoonCoin™?, you know we will throw our money away for it.
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shame on an IGA posted:graphing calculators are dead Graphing calculators will never die as long as you can play Drug Wars on them.
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shame on an IGA posted:graphing calculators are dead, scientific calculators are still useful for the great interface. The casio fx-115 is like $12 and perfect in every way. Would there be a market for something like a wolfram alpha calculator? Or would that just be worse than a laptop running Mathematica
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I taught a friend how to use a slide rule the other day, reject electrical computing.
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