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Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by southerntofu »

astrange wrote: post #153
southerntofu wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait till you realize that any form of money is a scam designed to extort riches from the poorest producers and make those riches climb the social pyramid. Tongue in cheek comment of course, but that's an argument that can be defended.

It's more like a way to trick farmers into producing food for you even though you don't right that second have something they want.

I don't think that's it. They have to do it because they themselves have bills to pay. However, if we're not talking about big industrial farms, most farmers are very much below the poverty line and have massive debt. So it's not exactly a facilitator of mutually-beneficial transactions, but rather a pyramid scheme. Who will profit from the food sale? The middlemen. Who will profit from the little money that the farmer pockets? Banks, Monsanto, etc..

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by RockRobotRock »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #104
IvyMike wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a matter of taste, of course, but the event does not look incredible to me. https://twitter.com/slandermepls/status/1721352598945677544

I’m surprised they didn’t stuff the room with paid actors. The closest tangible value to NFTs is that they grant membership to an exclusive social club.

Like the first episode of Silicon Valley

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by astrange »

jeffhuys wrote: post #39

I really am surprised by all the “lol you buy NFT so already blind” folks. Actually pretty disgusting. Disclaimer: I don’t own NFTs.

Luckily they should recover in 2-3 days, this is usually more like a sunburn than permanent injury.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by astrange »

Kye wrote: post #82
pavlov wrote: post #13

The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers: “About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market. Since then, more than a dozen have posted on social media complaining of a burning sensation in the eyes and sometimes also impaired vision.” Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed. But what do…

That's about the attendance of an average furry convention (or roughly one NordicFuzzCon) where the A/V crew will know what they're doing with the lights. Questionable ideas and their events and services struggle to attract competent staff for some reason. They're always getting hacked or melting faces.

I help run an anime con with, uh, 15 times this reported attendance. The most important thing is to keep your competent volunteers entertained so they're happy to run a rave one weekend a year that doesn't blind anyone.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by delecti »

kobalsky wrote: post #83
mjhay wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given the demographic overlap with Funko Pops, I'd tend to think so.

what? people hate funko pops now?

They were neat tchotchkes for a bit, but they just kept making absurd quantities of them, and for increasingly irrelevant side characters. There are currently over 15,000 different figures. Plus I think people are losing their appetite for "collectibles" that are just mass produced plastic.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by RockRobotRock »

mike_d wrote: post #113
snakeyjake wrote: post #19

Given the.. qualities.. of people involved in the NFT space the organizers probably bought a bunch of UV-C lamps off alibaba because they were cheap and looked cool-- doing absolutely no research and with no regard for others.

There have been reports of UV-C bulbs being repackaged as "party lights" and sold on eBay/Amazon/etc. So it is possible they had no idea.

related: https://youtu.be/CpRMud6EFtE

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by daniel_reetz »

CodeWriter23 wrote: post #154
IvyMike wrote: post #58

I learned last night that there are low-cost cards that test for UVC exposure; here is an example: https://www.amazon.com/QuantaDose-Light-Power-Visibility-Tec... They are usually used to verify that a purported UVC lamp is working, rather than working as a measure of protecting your eyesight, but maybe I should start bringing one of these to any concerts I go to.

I would not rely on a stain test designed to be used in close proximity to a light source being sensitive enough to detect eye-damaging UV at a distance. It might react only slightly, and the stain may not be discernible from the control in such circumstances.

Even clear "sunglasses" made of polycarbonate can provide excellent UV protection, but no telling if it's enough to protect against a blacklit room or stage laser that's been set up by incompetents.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by southerntofu »

JohnFen wrote: post #166
southerntofu wrote: post #143

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A decentralized P2P verification network is not hard. What's hard is building a global consensus to order these transactions, and there's not really a satisfying solution to that problem. > It's also not obvious to me that cryptocurrencies have value beyond "buying things you're not allowed to buy". The same could be said about cash but that's an important aspect of life. Whether we're talking about drugs (like canna…

> The same could be said about cash but that's an important aspect of life. But there are a ton of very obvious uses for cash aside from for things that are illegal. I use it every single day.

Sure, but that's true also with cryptocurrencies. You can make donations to non-profits / free-software with them, or acquire hosting services (web/dns/vps/vpn). I don't think technology is neutral in the general sense, but money (whether cash of cryptocurrencies), much like a pen and paper, is the kind of tool you can use for the best and worst purposes and there's not any way to change short of an orwellian dystopia.
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