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Thank you! Also possible candidates: A few watts short of a lightbulb. Their lights are on but nobody’s home.
One taco short of a combination plate.
"A few fries short of a happy meal"
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you! Also possible candidates: A few watts short of a lightbulb. Their lights are on but nobody’s home.
In french, we have "they are not not the sharpest knives of the drawer" but my favorite one is "he is not the penguin who slides the furthest" :D On the light related ones, I only know "they are not lights" which is a bit to bare bones to my taste, but works well in french
We have the knife in the drawer one in Swedish too. My favourite one is "The wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead" however.
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#183After I learned that NFTs were essentially just signed git commits, I wrote them off as a hilarious grift. I feel bad for the people that were injured, so here's my advice: run away from NFTs and crypto. RUN AWAY!
Hey! i mean you own that commit hash! and you can show it to others through an ipfs link! So basically ipfs won?! or lost?!
the worst were one that didn't even host on IPFS, they used their own domain names
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Crypto on the whole is a scene where Sam Bankman-Fried was considered very smart while he was busy conducting the most inept financial crimes in modern history. The bar is low indeed.
We - humans - could have had digital money - fast and fee-less, micro-transactions, decentralization, secure, anti-spam. Everything Bitcoin claimed to want to be. Instead we - the tech community - got smug about scams. People here get smug even toward the victims of scams. The attitude has been 'Who gives a flying fuck about the details of any crypto tech, or the potential of digital money'. 'It's all a scam, so I do…
Fast and fee-less? Does that work on a distributed ledger? Is there some magic I’m missing to make consensus quick and cheap?
Micro-transactions were never going to be feasible considering gas fees required to run a sufficiently secure blockchain app.
Decentralized? I’m still confused. Has anyone actually solved the Oracle problem with crypto? How are we actually getting decentralization?
Anti-spam??????? Ok that’s literally just crazy talk right? In what way does crypto have anything to do with spam? Afaict everything crypto-related still requires an email address to sign up if that’s what you mean.
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What percentage of the general population do you think knows the differences between different UV, and their maximum exposure? My guess is 95 percent of people in this tread didn't know 5 minutes ago.
I would agree with that guess. It's one of the reasons that deferring to domain experts can so often be the correct option for somebody who is ill-informed in a subject space.
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#186When NFTs turned up I had people telling me in some detail, very seriously, how NFTs were going to change the world.
the success of PFP collections aren't any barometer of that though
aside from showing the size of the existing collector speculation market
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#188I really am surprised by all the “lol you buy NFT so already blind” folks. Actually pretty disgusting. Disclaimer: I don’t own NFTs.
Why not? Its called Schadenfreude and tbh the amount of NFT or Crypto scams, garbage and co people had to endure the last years is horrendes. Its one thing to state in a comment that you shouldn't use NFT or crypto, but unfortunate we are not discussing banning them activly.
I think being into NFTs and crypto makes you a fool.
But I do not think fools should suffer vision damage, or that they deserve harm on them.
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You would think the pain would be immediate though.
That's the big danger with solar eclipses. It's not bright enough to hurt at the time. The damage only starts to become apparent after a few hours or the next day.
When I went to see a total eclipse I was surprised that even a tiny slit of the sun was still hard to look at. Not sure why anyone would try to stare at that.
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> 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 dystopi…
> that's true also with cryptocurrencies
To a much lesser degree. I wouldn't be able to use cryptocurrencies for any of the things I use cash for.
But that wasn't what was being asserted. The original assertion was "It's also not obvious to me that cryptocurrencies have value beyond "buying things you're not allowed to buy"."
The same thing cannot be said of cash.
(I don't agree with the assertion I quoted, to be clear. Aside from buying illegal goods, it's good for evading banking regulations and fees, but that's neither here nor there.)