When NFTs turned up I had people telling me in some detail, very seriously, how NFTs were going to change the world.
This website had tons of grifters shilling it during the peak. A lot of them raised money somehow too.
Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
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#202Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#203This is pathetic. The original promoters behind BAYC, two guys from Florida and the son of some official of a bank in Africa, were rave promoters. They botched their metaverse project, Otherside, but that was technically ambitious. The people running it now can't even run a medium-sized rave properly. Earlier ApeFest events were only for BAYC holders and had a celebrity lineup. This time they sold tickets to anyone.
BAYC is the top end of NFTs. Almost everything else is worse. Overall, NFT value has declined something like 98%.
(The NFT crowd irks me because I want to see good metaverses, and between the NFT clowns and Zuckerberg, the whole field crashed.)
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#204If I remember correctly, your eyes don’t adjust to black light the same it would as full spectrum, and will stay mostly dilated as if it were in the dark. This can increase the chances of photokeratitis, or basically sunburn on the eyes with high powered shows like this. I am obviously not a dr
Similar to the effect of wearing one earplug or one headphone/IEM: when one ear is exposed to much louder sound than the other, the combined exposure across both ears doesn't trigger the natural protective mechanism [0] to the degree that it would be triggered if that same level of exposure was applied to both ears, so the one ear gets totally wrecked. Also not a doctor and would appreciate a counterpoint from anyone who knows this to be a myth.
[0] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/protect.htm...
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#205I really am surprised by all the “lol you buy NFT so already blind” folks. Actually pretty disgusting. Disclaimer: I don’t own NFTs.
People love laughing at people they think are below them. In the current political climate, pretty much all of the groups that were laughed at are protected now and deriding them is uncouth. Thankfully, it will always be okay to laugh at stupid people but only in specific contexts.
For several years, anyone who pointed out problematic or criminal aspects of crypto were subject to a torrent of abuse from the people you are identifying as the victims.
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#206UV light for entertainment? What's the point?
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 l…
Block lattice tech has been around for seven years. All your points would be answered by looking into it - it's not a secret.
Eg, Nano uses it. It's been working, efficient, safe, fast (It's tending toward decentralization because there's no mining, no staking, and there was a genuinely fair distribution.
Fee-less transactions come with bad actors spamming the network with microscopic transactions, like a DDOS. So, Nano uses a 'bucket' system to keep things moving.
Tbh, this is exactly what I mean - all of this ought to be well known. People in general have a massive blind spot on what money actually is, and a weird reluctance to discuss what it could be. We're talking about all the crypto that doesn't work, so much so that people don't even know there's good and working crypto right now. We're talking about the scammers, instead of the people doing cool things without seeking glory for it.
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#208Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#209After 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!
essentially. a whole industry cropped up around hosting them, which mostly defeats the point there are a lot of NFTs that are better implementations, the primary improvement being that there is no external hosting and they build the visual data into the smart contract function for a renderer to interpret Ive done a lot with SVGs that way. others upload dependendies like three.js on the blockchain in other smart contr…
This whole smart contract stuff looks very interesting.
Do you have resources for someone that only know the basics of cryptocurrencies and blockchains ?
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#210Given 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.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t expect the average guy to know how to tell whether a UV bulb is safe (regular non-quartz glass helps a lot) or that dangerous ones are sold without warnings.
The "average guy" shouldn't be doing technical stage production.
You hire trained professionals for this kind of thing. There are literally entire companies who specialize in putting together these kinds of events safely, every single day.
A professional stage lighting designer or theatrical electrician would absolutely know that this is a risk.