Any info on the metal used for the coins?
Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin
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Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin
#122I'd love to see Dennis Ritchie commemorated as one of the greatest Americans.
He deserves it, without him, Jobs would be an unknown.
Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin
#123The irony of all of this is of course not only that effectively no one has used any of the $1 coins since the introduction of the Sacagawea, when their value had basically halved since then, just based on official inflation fraud numbers; so it is unlikely anyone will ever see these coins either, unless you make a deliberate point to acquire and use them.
The government is clearly trying to do away with the freedom of coinage and bills, intentionally and unintentionally through its inflation fraud, and that decline of America is rather ironically encapsulated in this kind of cheapening of the currency in several literal and figurative forms.
And these coins are not even made of any durable metals that could survive history until another civilization can collectively wonder about how America could have ruined itself so quickly, after rising so rapidly.
They could have at least made these coins at least silver or gold, so some future intelligence could at least find them. But here we are, the government creating tokens with cheap iconography made of cheap materials and a face value that literally cannot even buy you a cup of colored sugar water anymore.
Frankly, who cares? Beyond saying “that’s nifty” while looking at the images of the designs; who here expects to ever see one of these “in the wild”?
Have you seen any of the 40 presidential dollar coins in the wild? How about the 29 “American innovation” coins that precede this set? Heck, how often have you seen a Sacagawea in the wild, considering there were probably about 2+ billion of them minted by now?
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#124Norman Borlaug's story is amazing. He brought modern farming practices to Mexico and created a new strain of high yield disease resistant dwarf wheat at quadrupled wheat production in the country. Did the same in India, Pakistan, and Africa. Saved a billion lives as a result. Solved food as a limited resource for the first time in human history. We've now gotten to transcend food scarcity as a society. It's super coo…
Few individuals have touched anywhere near as many lives as he has, perhaps only matched by Fritz Haber/Carl Bosch and ammonia synthesis.
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#125Steve Jobs was an absolut malignent narcissist and a copycat. Why not Dennis Ritchie for example? This is ridiculous.
Yes, I think this is an insult to our profession. All I can say about Jobs is he made lots of $. Dennis Ritchie revolutionized an industry.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they're meant for regular circulation, the program is being led by a buffoon. $1 coins have failed to circulate every time they've been introduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_dollar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar Dollars are worth a lot less now than they were. If vending machines start charging integer numbers of dollars, maybe dollar coins will catch on.
You remind me of the time (probably around 2002) I used a 20 to pay for some transit card/ticket somewhere and ended up with something like 15 dollar coins in change. I want to say it was a metro card in NYC. Concurrent dismay and delight.
Around the same time I was working as a cashier when a woman came in with a Sacagawea dollar.
"Woah, look at this, I just got it as change from the vending machine. I think it's Middle Eastern. Very exotic."
"It's a dollar coin, US currency."
"Woah! No way, how can you tell!?"
"It says United States of America one dollar?"
"Oh."
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Concurrent dismay and delight. That's exactly what I felt at the time too. To me it was always three-quarters delight and one-quarter dismay. A jangling rain of dancing gold coins is a delightful thing. Sure, now I have to go to the bank; but until that time I will walk around as a pirate, pockets full of doubloons.
The problem from a get-the-coins-into-circulation perspective is that the delight diminishes with exposure and the dismay doesn't.
Yeah, there's a moment when the weight of the change you're carrying becomes noticeable that elicits a "seriously?!" dismay response.
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#128> Mobile Refrigeration — Minnesota The logistical chain for keeping products products is really interesting: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_chain Besides food, another area where it is critical is pharmaceuticals.
They said these innovations are what the state is known for, but I've been a Minnesota resident my entire life and didn't know refrigerated trucking was invented here.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
There isn’t a company on the coins, just the supercomputer device itself. The Jobs coin has Jobs himself.
The device is followed by the word "Cray" and overall it's similar enough to their trademarked logo I imagine I'd get in trouble if I tried to use it.
Yeah I just meant the actual device is being honored, not the corporation itself.
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#130weird design for steve jobs.. without context it looks like the depiction of some spiritual leader (which maybe is a bit funny given the early apple fanbase). I get he was a bit of a hippie, but that's not exactly his claim-to-fame > His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection i dont associate "reflection" with him. not to disparage him in the slightest, but its just not in the top ten of…
> I then made myself laugh by trying to imagine a depiction of Bill Gates in the same pose That is funny, although nothing will ever top Deborah Feingold's 1985 photoshoot where he lies on his desk and flirts with the camera
Indeed
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*l85kSwZf...
It always reminds me of Manet's Olympia.