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Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by lupire »

neilv wrote: post #29
buryat wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the video interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ1TIYxm1vM he never demonstrates how he tears them apart after mentioning that they're perforated. To me, it all looks like a 4x1 sheet of $2 bills that you can buy off the US mint. The video interview all sounds like a joke, and he says at some point "No, no it's all a joke". Unless it's a deposition, it's all based on trusting his character and given his lates…

My reaction to that video: Teasing restaurant employees like that, and letting it escalate, isn't my personal style, but... Not only is he a more accomplished hacker than I am, he's even a better talk show guest.

Per influencer rules, if you screws around neither someone's head for lolz, you should pay them combat wages for their time afterward.

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by lolinder »

kubb wrote: post #119
jagged-chisel wrote: post #118

Heck of a markup on these things. $2, eight-note sheet, that's $16 before shipping and whatever else. Add $20 ... because they're in demand? idk...

Printing money costs money too.

But these notes stop the printing process early—the purchaser is on the hook to cut them out. So these should cost less than the fully printed and cut bills if we're going by pure cost of creation.

Do banks pay upwards of $1.50 on the dollar for new bills?

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by Aunche »

magic_smoke_ee wrote: post #112
neilv wrote: post #11

Steve Wozniak (the Apple cofounder) famously bought sheets of $2 bills, and had a printer perforate and gum them into pads. So he could literally tear off $2 bills, in front of people who might not even know it was real currency, to pay them. https://web.archive.org/web/20180311084811/http://archive.wo...

In today's stupefied America, it wouldn't be safe because the police will be called and the police escalate things into unnecessary violence. In the 60's through 80's it would've been fine, but not now.

There wasn't any standardized data on police violence in the US in the 60s through 80s, but I doubt that it was any less significant.

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by bryanlarsen »

api wrote: post #114
bryanlarsen wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rely on what that couldn't be better served by $1 coins?

Coins are horribly inconvenient compared to bills.

Do you have any experience in countries with large denomination coins? Anything smaller than a quarter is super annoying, even the quarter is borderline. It says something when a countries largest coin is too small to be useful. A 500 Yen (~$4) coin OTOH, is super nice.

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by atq2119 »

Freedom2 wrote: post #59
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #55

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> Pre-existing conditions, which as far as I'm aware, is a US-only concept Most of the world's population has no concept of socialised heath insurance. Pre-existing or novel. Someone in a wheelchair, or who is blind or mute, is much better accomodated in America than in most of Europe. (In part because the former is richer.)

If we're comparing the United States against third-world countries and not against their peers, then this isn't really a discussion worth having. > Someone in a wheelchair, or who is blind or mute, is much better accomodated in America than in most of Europe. I find that hard to believe given the lack of public transport, lack of funding for widespread public facilities, lack of empathy from insurers, lack of governm…

As a European, I can confirm that wheelchair accessibility is traditionally better in the US than in Europe.

I suspect it's a combination of getting relevant laws earlier (don't know that, just guessing), having less old infrastructure (building new with accessibility is easier than upgrading existing buildings), and having more space (so adding a wheelchair ramp is less of a deal).

Europe is generally catching up, but I'd say it's still behind the US. At least the places I know.

But of course, that's not the whole story, as another commenter illustrates with some concrete examples for the cost of wheelchairs and wheelchair maintenance.

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

Freedom2 wrote: post #80
eru wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean 'pre-existing conditions' in the context of buying health insurance? That concept pretty well known in other parts of the world. See eg https://www.moh.gov.sg/managing-expenses/schemes-and-subsidi... for a random example. Or https://globmed.co.uk/blog/pre-existing-health-condition-exp... or just ask Google for more. What research did you do before making your statement?

> What research did you do before making your statement? I clearly stated "as far as I'm aware" and that I am happy to be corrected. I appreciate the extra information, but the tone here is not appreciated and is skirting close to breaching the HN guidelines.

I did not see anything with their tone.

There was nothing wrong with you making a statement qualified with "as far as I know". You're good.

Likewise, there was nothing wrong with another person asking for details regarding what effort went into "as far as I know". They're good.

Someone who is in any given field and has researched it for decades might have more related knowledge included in "as far as I know", than someone who didn't. So it's totally reasonable to ask them how they came to know 'as far as they know', because that information is critical for everyone else to judge how much credence to lend to that someone's posts.

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