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What about buying and storing aged cheeses as a store of value that can increase in value? Cheese I imagine ages in a more predictable rate and everyone loves cheese. IBM even used to make a cheese slicer analog computer bc the stuff was valuable. https://hackaday.com/2021/10/12/ibm-cheese-cutter-restoration/
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until today, i had no idea that such a thing as a mechanical cheese computer ever existed
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Foo Diddley posted:until today, i had no idea that such a thing as a mechanical cheese computer ever existed IBM also made computers for the nazis to calculate the holocaust. IBM is kind of a hosed up company. 
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Feb 17, 2023 14:51
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iirc, IBM even went on supporting their machines well after they knew what was going on. There were more than a few American companies that did that. Ford especially.
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Feb 17, 2023 15:51
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Rad-daddio posted:iirc, IBM even went on supporting their machines well after they knew what was going on. well that’s just what Ford Sr would have wanted
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Feb 17, 2023 16:13
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Rad-daddio posted:What about buying and storing aged cheeses as a store of value that can increase in value? There is an Italian bank that deals in Parmesan wheels to be aged as loan collateral. Closest that I know of.
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Feb 17, 2023 16:17
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Cheese chain sounds very slow. Maybe we could have a lightning sourdough network for day to day accounting.
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Rad-daddio posted:What about buying and storing aged cheeses as a store of value that can increase in value? A mechanical cheese-cutter? It seems that the only robot the world needs was already built long, long ago
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Feb 17, 2023 16:47
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nomad2020 posted:There is an Italian bank that deals in Parmesan wheels to be aged as loan collateral. Closest that I know of. i've heard of wheeling and dealing but this is ridiculous
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Feb 17, 2023 17:09
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Mozi posted:i've heard of wheeling and dealing but this is ridiculous I dunno, I hear the savings rates there are pretty gouda
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Feb 17, 2023 17:16
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if you've got the cheddar, sure
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Feb 17, 2023 17:34
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these posts are still better than Bitcoin
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Feb 17, 2023 17:37
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more falafel please posted:provoloan So dumb but it made me laugh, thanks
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Rad-daddio posted:IBM even used to make a cheese slicer analog computer bc the stuff was valuable.
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Feb 17, 2023 18:09
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Bitcoin: so dumb it made me laugh
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resistentialism posted:They open a few from a batch and figure that the rest are probably doing about as well as the test ones. this sounds like lootboxes/gacha/ tcg booster packs but for rich people. lol at humans just being flightless magpies with a complicated shiny collection game.
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Foo Diddley posted:until today, i had no idea that such a thing as a mechanical cheese computer ever existed
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Feb 17, 2023 19:35
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Somebody hasn't read their Pratchett.
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Feb 17, 2023 19:49
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nullEntityRNG posted:Hex was run by ants and bees, not cheese. Granted there was a bit with cheese. well, it also had to run with FTB* enabled *Fluffy Teddy Bear
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From the YOSPOS buttcoin thread:smellmycheese posted:This UK Redditor has absolutely no idea how much poo poo he is in lol
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Collateral Damage posted:I can add that Hand Tool Rescue, the youtube channel mentioned is a pro subscribe. seconded. seeing old and sometimes odd tools get a new lease on life is never less than fascinating to me, and the dude doing the restorations has a sense of humor but doesn't tip over into obnoxiousness. good stuff
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ultrafilter posted:From the YOSPOS buttcoin thread: for those too lazy to visit reddit, dude admits his side business was exchanging monero for real world money and vice versa. he was running the business equivalent of a neon sign saying MONEY LAUNDERING HERE
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ymgve posted:for those too lazy to visit reddit, dude admits his side business was exchanging monero for real world money and vice versa. he was running the business equivalent of a neon sign saying MONEY LAUNDERING HERE huh I thought monero was already doing the laundering
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Ups_rail posted:huh I thought monero was already doing the laundering it does but the main "problem" is that monero is not actual money so someone has to be a bridge there
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Feb 17, 2023 22:05
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Yeah eventually the monero end up in the hands of someone who wants to buy something that isn't drugs, so they need to find some dupe with a bank account
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Qwertycoatl posted:dupe with a bank account one secret Barclays doesn't want you to know!
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This has to be fake
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Salt Fish posted:This has to be fake What is know your customer?
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ymgve posted:for those too lazy to visit reddit, dude admits his side business was exchanging monero for real world money and vice versa. he was running the business equivalent of a neon sign saying MONEY LAUNDERING HERE Wouldn't, at the very least, they be illegally money transmitting/services (assuming the UK has similar laws as the US), ignoring the potential (unknowing?) money laundering aspect? 
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There is no difference between me sending you 10 monero and a criminal sending you 10 monero. Wait, why are you suspending my bank account??
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my homie found some kind of failed crypto farm out in NM today:   LOL this is good for bitcoin
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Feb 18, 2023 00:33
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more falafel please posted:provoloan This is gouda for bitcoin.
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LifeSunDeath posted:my homie found some kind of failed crypto farm out in NM today: literal pallets of old pcs, on a farm no less
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LifeSunDeath posted:my homie found some kind of failed crypto farm out in NM today: Bitcoin, when the servers fell FTX, their shirt lost
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LifeSunDeath posted:my homie found some kind of failed crypto farm out in NM today: there are starving kids in Africa that would love to game on these. 😔
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Feb 18, 2023 00:56
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LifeSunDeath posted:my homie found some kind of failed crypto farm out in NM today: Mr. White, what are you doing with all these graphics cards?!
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I'm guessing that is actually a scrap scheme of regular servers. Datacenters will give away hardware to people because otherwise they have to pay money to recycle it or dispose of it legally. So you pawn off a few pallets of poo poo hardware to a dummy with a farm who thinks they're going to make a mint of the scrap metal. edit: I bought a similar looking pallet of old dells from a state auction once and managed to turn 200 hours of labor into giving away a couple dozen computers to people that needed them and made $0 dollars, not recommended.
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Asked homie about picking up a GPU from that farm, he said they will only sell in quantities of 25 or more LMAO. Meanwhile there stock is sitting outside all day.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Asked homie about picking up a GPU from that farm, he said they will only sell in quantities of 25 or more LMAO. The pilot of Tech Pickers
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