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

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Post by endofreach »

hbbio wrote: post #292
rainsford wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At any event, how is an attendee supposed to assess such a thing? It's not like you can DYOR. That's why I think the cryptobro angle is relevant to the story, because assessing trust in the folks putting on a conference is the way for attendees to figure out if they're likely to be blinded by the lighting or face other issues. And the type of people the whole cryptocurrency and especially NFT scene attract seem at…

"in my opinion to be way more likely" I have no data but still, here's my bias.

It is so annoying... ehag do people believe "in my opinion" means? Also: is everything you believe actually based on facts?

If not, by posting your comment just showed a whole bunch of biases that are secretly controlling you.

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Post by djur »

ericflo wrote: post #279

If you read this article and it gave you pleasure, examine those feelings. I find the generally schadenfreudic reaction to be disgusting. These people just wanted to get together to talk about something they enjoy and you don't.

It's a wonder that there isn't more sympathy for a group of people who say "have fun staying poor" so often they started using an acronym for it.

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Post by asadotzler »

resolutebat wrote: post #268

"all this time i thought the lasers were going in the other direction" -Molly White https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1721549511950999579

Molly killed that. She killed it, cleaned it, cooked it, and served it up hot. Damn she goes hard.

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Post by CoastalCoder »

isk517 wrote: post #132
bobsmooth wrote: post #52

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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.

It isn't ok to make fun of people just because they are stupid, no, these people can be made fun of because they are stupid AND greedy.

We're all stupid and greedy to various degrees. Making fun of people probably isn't conducive to a happy life.

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Post by thrwy_918 »

matteoraso wrote: post #213
LelouBil wrote: post #199

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Wait what, I thought it was at least the hash of the image or something.

No, NFTs technically have nothing to do with images, or files at all. The way it works is that you write a random string and save it on a blockchain, which becomes the NFT. From there, you can use a lookup table to map the NFT to a URL that links to an image that's stored on the owner's server. NFTs are truly the worst of all grifts.

AFAIK it is often perfectly possible to actually encode image data on-chain, it is just much more expensive (and much less common as a result)

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Post by Spivak »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #293
rainsford wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At any event, how is an attendee supposed to assess such a thing? It's not like you can DYOR. That's why I think the cryptobro angle is relevant to the story, because assessing trust in the folks putting on a conference is the way for attendees to figure out if they're likely to be blinded by the lighting or face other issues. And the type of people the whole cryptocurrency and especially NFT scene attract seem at…

It was a rave open to the general public. How many people actually consider the reputation of someone setting up a party or rave. Half the time it IS someone out of their mind on drugs in a condemned warehouse or the middle of the desert .

I think you picked the one avenue where people are wary of the person putting on the event because you are gonna be tripping and need to be in a reasonably safe environment, you will get your hearing destroyed in only a few hours by some idiots who think that turning it up to 11 makes for a better show, and raving is a community of regulars that have collective memory for bad reputation.

It's funny because what you're describing with the warehouse is "the afters" which unbeknownst to someone who isn't a regular has already established a reputation and been vetted by the community because they're all word of mouth.

The point is that lack of reputation likely meant that despite the fact that it was public the usual partygoers weren't there. You typically need either a trusted organizer/venue or a trusted artist and their techs who's done this before and aren't gonna do something stupid.

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Post by reactordev »

trillic wrote: post #307
glompers wrote: post #287

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No doubt there is. The new story (and a story probably on-topic in the context of this discussion) is the quantity of financial arbitrage firms who have lately been relocating their employees and headquarters _to_ Florida.

Florida has no state income tax and has a homestead bankruptcy exception. Two huge reasons for high-risk traders to prefer living there. Under Florida bankruptcy laws you are allowed to exempt an unlimited amount of value in your home or any other property which is covered by the homestead exemption. Buy a $50 Million house. Fill it with expensive art. If you lose everything, at least you still have your $50M house f…

This is why. It's a tax, retiree's, high-risk trader's, haven. The Florida bankruptcy laws are so lax that people often file multiple times throughout their lifetimes. And still run for president. /s To quote a man behind bars for attempted murder and was on a Netflix series - Florida's favorite - Tiger King: "I'm never gonna financially recover from this." is something you hear often in Florida. Both from visitors, and from residents.

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Post by plagiarist »

pavlov wrote: post #40
SrslyJosh wrote: post #36

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Clearly, Yuga Labs has no incentive to either exaggerate the number of attendees or understate the number of people harmed. =)

Everybody in crypto is so honest and the numbers they love to tout are always real, so I don’t see any reason to be so cynical. Unless of course one is a fiat-blinded NPC sheep who hates disruptive innovation and wants to kill the children in Africa and El Salvador who are being rescued from poverty by the limitless power of blockchain energy.

This isn't even sarcasm, this is just collecting various actual statements in one location. I know I have been called genocidal for expressing an opinion that we should maybe run medical studies prior to massive ivermectin doses for everyone in the third world. Same energy.

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Post by anon84873628 »

gryn wrote: post #274
komali2 wrote: post #237

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Since finding this out a couple years back it's always my delight to see this realization happen for others. We knew NFTs were stupid... we just couldn't comprehend how incredibly stupid they actually are.

What baffling is how did they get this popular ? Plenty of stupid things to go around, why this specific one? Who was the marketing genius that convinced a critical mass to buy something worse than sand in the middle of the desert.

At a first level, similar phenomenon to why trading cards or any other collectible fads have their periods of excitement. Is digital beanie babies at all surprising?

Then there were also folks who wanted to use them as an open standard for, like, "metaverse assets" and whatnot. And while there are many different ways to solve that technically, you also have the blockchain proponents looking for any problem that blockchain can solve... So there is the added energy from that synergy as well.

Then I believe there are fairly serious businesses looking at NFTs for things like digital albums sales (or other ways to cultivate and monetize parasocial relationships) while disintermediating the traditional platforms.

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