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Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Post by agravier »

mjlee wrote: post #84
mvkel wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All it needed was the emdash

I've been pressing minus twice to type a dash on Mac OS for so long I've forgotten when I started. People are pointing it out to me more and more every day. I think my writing is distinct enough from an LLM for most people, but there's certainly a growing contingent that sees a telltale and assumes everything must be AI generated. Most (all?) keyboards I've used only have a combined hyphen‐minus key (-) which is dist…

I've been using it as well for a long while (though using option shift -), but I don't care what people think. I won't change my style to appease Temu Sherlocks, or anyone really. How I write doesn't change the value of the message. I invite you to join me in not giving a crap.

Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Post by garbthetill »

WalterBright wrote: post #56

I remember a painting was discovered, and there was speculation that it was a da Vinci. It was appraised at $30,000. If it could be proven to be a da Vinci, it would be worth a million. For the same item. Crazy.

The salvator mundi was bought at an auction for $1.2k, restored & appraised, then eventually sold for $450 million. The art/collection world is fascinate everything latches onto experts putting their reputation on the line, precious metals and gem stones make way more sense to me as their authenticity is undeniable for now

Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Post by bazoom42 »

nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote: post #82
daseiner1 wrote: post #37

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the article explicitly states that this original Superman #1 is the highest graded copy of all-time it’s valuable for the same reason the mona lisa is valuable. it’s iconic, it is a singular object, it is one of a kind, it is a stable investment vehicle. they ain’t making more of them.

Stable investment vehicle I am not so sure. I think an index fund or even gold will outperform it over 100 years. Superman comics rely on people giving a shit about superman which will fade over time. Superman isnt a big thing for gen z for example.

Who knows, but some comic books characters like Batman and Spider-man are bigger that ever, while others like Tarzan is losing relevance.

Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #108
krapp wrote: post #100

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Hacker News is for human beings to share stories they find interesting so that other human beings can discuss those stories to gratify their intellectual curiosity. Automating that process with the goal of maximizing visibility and karma defeats the intended goal of the forum. Not the actual goal, of course the actual goal of Hacker News for many people is gaming SEO and startup juice. That said, I don't doubt for a…

The actual actual goal is to promote Ycombinator to make money for pg.

I don't think it's that simple. It's my opinion that YC doesn't need much buzz, except within this very community. Since they own the venue, they get the benefit.

I think that a goal is to "cultivate" a startup community. Get nerds and tech bros together, and some synergy is bound to happen.

I'm not trying to start anything up, but I do enjoy the community. I'm not really what YC is looking for, but I suspect they like me, more than an LLM.

Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Post by neuronic »

Nevermark wrote: post #81
WalterBright wrote: post #56

I remember a painting was discovered, and there was speculation that it was a da Vinci. It was appraised at $30,000. If it could be proven to be a da Vinci, it would be worth a million. For the same item. Crazy.

Do you think a sculpture by a pre-civilization human is worth more than something banged out yesterday? Heritage has great value. It is one of the few things that cannot be manufactured at will. Also, since its uniqueness holds its value, its value becomes a "strange attractor". You can put a lot of money into one of these artifacts, fairly sure to get most or more back. Since future buyers will have a similar assura…

This is all a great way of describing why art works as a money laundering or tax evasion scheme.

Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Post by mjlee »

agravier wrote: post #111
mjlee wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been pressing minus twice to type a dash on Mac OS for so long I've forgotten when I started. People are pointing it out to me more and more every day. I think my writing is distinct enough from an LLM for most people, but there's certainly a growing contingent that sees a telltale and assumes everything must be AI generated. Most (all?) keyboards I've used only have a combined hyphen‐minus key (-) which is dist…

I've been using it as well for a long while (though using option shift -), but I don't care what people think. I won't change my style to appease Temu Sherlocks, or anyone really. How I write doesn't change the value of the message. I invite you to join me in not giving a crap.

It wasn't clear from my comment, but I absolutely don't care and I'm going to keep typing how I type.

Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Post by Xss3 »

plufz wrote: post #89
mjlee wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been pressing minus twice to type a dash on Mac OS for so long I've forgotten when I started. People are pointing it out to me more and more every day. I think my writing is distinct enough from an LLM for most people, but there's certainly a growing contingent that sees a telltale and assumes everything must be AI generated. Most (all?) keyboards I've used only have a combined hyphen‐minus key (-) which is dist…

Yeah it actually saddens me a little, if using good and correct typography will be avoided because of LLM.

Em dashes are still appropriate for articles, journals, scientific papers, and other academic or professional writing.

In social media comments they came across as pompous even before LLMs and werent particularly appropriate for casual comments.

Though to be fair some people enjoy coming across as pompous and embrace the 'better than the peasants and their lowly minus sign use' attitude. Makes them feel special or as if their writing is markedly better than those without fancy punctuation. (It isnt).

Also yes, im describing two writers i know that are adamant about the em dash being 'a sign of an intellectual wtiter'...they are insufferable pricks.

Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #87
iammattmurphy wrote: post #17

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This might be genuinely the first time I can remember hearing someone say they don’t want to commit piracy. No offence, but who cares? Especially for something from 1939.

I mean, I care (though not for something whose creators are long since dead and whom you can't support any more). But in general, I certainly try to avoid piracy. I think it's immoral and while I don't think it makes one a bad person (I myself used to pirate a ton of stuff when I had no money to buy it), I do think it's a thing that a good person should strive to avoid.

Back up here:

>"I care (though not for something whose creators are long since dead and whom you can't support any more)."

>"I think it's immoral"

King Herod makes the Kill Babies Act and now you consider it immoral not to kill babies?

You justified copyright by suggesting it was about supporting creators. So you at least consider the moral justification to end at the creators death?

It just really interests me how copyright terms which were grown purely to support corporations so they wouldn't have to be creative (read that as would but need to employ people, or pay people for creativity) can have people figuratively clutching pearls.

Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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Post by BubbleRings »

evanelias wrote: post #22
charcircuit wrote: post #4

With this kind of case it's impossible to read the comic book, and it doesn't protect it from UV light. I prefer using covers that block UV light. This both protects it and allows you to read it.

It really doesn't make sense to read a 9.0 condition key comic like this. If you really wanted to read it, you would be better off buying a second reading copy in terrible condition. The cost of the reading copy would end up being less than the negative impact to the condition (and therefore value) of your mint copy from reading it a single time.

What a wild concept in this case:

With a little effort and research someone could come up with a reasonable estimate that read something like, “a typical 15-year-old reading through this comic once in a typical way would have cost the family X dollars”, and X might literally be $100k. Certainly well over $10k.

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