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Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Post by RobotToaster »

shortrounddev2 wrote: post #112
throw0101d wrote: post #65

> 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.

During the pandemic there was controversy about who received Moderna/Phizer vs who received J&J's vaccine. They were giving black neighborhoods J&J because it didn't have as strict refrigeration requirements, and a lot of black neighborhoods don't have a nearby pharmacy which can store the vaccines. J&J was thought to be less effective and had a higher rate of vaccine injury though.

> had a higher rate of vaccine injury though.

Given the most common vaccine injury is caused by improper administration, I wonder if that could be related? ie. less trained staff would potentially be administering vaccines in black neighbourhoods? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_injury_related_to_vac...

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Post by sparrish »

voidUpdate wrote: post #82
pk-protect-ai wrote: post #79

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Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison? It is just how it is...

I don't think you're allowed to have living people on a US coin

There is a law but there have been plenty of exceptions including President Calvin Coolidge on a 1926 half-dollar and Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby on a 1921 commemorative coin and Carter Glass on the 1936 Lynchburg Half Dollar.

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danans wrote: post #226
avazhi wrote: post #215

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Ok? That doesn’t diminish in any way his technological and industrial accomplishments.

> Ok? That doesn’t diminish in any way his technological and industrial accomplishments. Why are those the criteria for being on a coin? Neither Henry Ford nor John D Rockefeller are on coins. Jobs was dismissive of concerns about US technology manufacturing jobs being offshored to China, famously saying "Those jobs aren't coming back" [1]. He was right of course, and he seems to have consciously avoided involvement…

I'm personally glad that Steve Jobs wasn't a protectionist and we weren't all paying $2000 in 2011 dollars for an iPhone.

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Post by sparrish »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #140
elif wrote: post #104

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Each state voted on its innovation.

Had to consult an LLM about Kansas. I'm going to go with Clyde Vernon Cessna, George Washington Carver or Walter Chrysler.

George Washington Carver is already on the 2024 coin for Missouri.

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Post by sparrish »

hirvi74 wrote: post #180
elif wrote: post #104

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Each state voted on its innovation.

Dolly Parton is the only person of value to ever come out my state (TN).

Tennessee already had their coin in 2022. They featured the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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Post by danans »

nozzlegear wrote: post #243
danans wrote: post #226

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> Ok? That doesn’t diminish in any way his technological and industrial accomplishments. Why are those the criteria for being on a coin? Neither Henry Ford nor John D Rockefeller are on coins. Jobs was dismissive of concerns about US technology manufacturing jobs being offshored to China, famously saying "Those jobs aren't coming back" [1]. He was right of course, and he seems to have consciously avoided involvement…

I'm personally glad that Steve Jobs wasn't a protectionist and we weren't all paying $2000 in 2011 dollars for an iPhone.

> I'm personally glad that Steve Jobs wasn't a protectionist

Me also. What does that have to do with Jobs being represented on currency?

Why not do the same for the pharmaceutical CEOs who have set up generic drug supply chains overseas, or the leaders of apparel companies who set up overseas sweatshops to enable us to have disposable clothing?

Arguably, affordable antibiotics and underwear have made a vastly bigger positive impact on standard of living than iPhones.

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Post by linguae »

hirvi74 wrote: post #180
elif wrote: post #104

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Each state voted on its innovation.

Dolly Parton is the only person of value to ever come out my state (TN).

Al Gore and Elvis Presley are two prominent Tennesseans who immediately come to mind as a third-generation Californian. Don’t discount your state.

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Post by sparrish »

stevenjgarner wrote: post #158

Minimum of $27.50 for all 4 coins ($6.88 per coin), or $123.50 for 100 of one coin (for 2025 [1]) [1] https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/american-innovati...

Those aren't the coins in circulation. Those are proof coins and reverse proof coins, made shiny for collectors.

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Post by sparrish »

bombcar wrote: post #74
RobotToaster wrote: post #16

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The answer is an awkward "yes" They are "designed" for circulation, but only ever get sold as collectors items. Banks won't stock them but you can order rolls or bags of them from the US mint for a little over face value (I ordered a roll of the space shuttle ones to the UK) I'm not sure what stops the USA using dollar coins in circulation, I assume there's no legal requirement for banks to stock them? (The fact that…

Banks usually have some dollar coins and if you ask they can get them. But cash register drawers usually do not have a space for them, they’re relatively heavy, and people don’t use them because they don’t use them. Vending machines famously went ham trying to use them which annoyed people. It didn’t help that the old Susan B dollar coins were almost a quarter shape and size if you weren’t paying attention. The dolla…

Pennies are going away so cash drawers should start having room for $1 coins soon. I'm hopeful we'll start seeing them.

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Post by engeljohnb »

dboreham wrote: post #181
engeljohnb wrote: post #120

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Woz is a genius who invented the personal computer as we know it. Jobs was a celebrity who was good at branding himself as a genius. I don't consider a clever UI idea like a touch screen to be a work of brilliance, especially since he did zero engineering work, both for early and later Apple devices. Touch screen handheld devices would've come around with or without him, just maybe a few years later. It should've bee…

> Woz is a genius who invented the personal computer as we know it. History being written by the victors here, I believe. He designed some clever things for example bit-banging the floppy interface which allowed the Apple 2 to have floppies at a lower price point than competitors. Another innovation of the Apple 2 at the time was its use of a switched-mode PSU. It was almost certainly the first personal computer to h…

After looking more closely at the release dates of the earliest home computers, I found you're right. Three major home computers, all preassembled, with keyboard and video display and BASIC launched in 1977. Seems Apple II was not the first, only the most forward-looking of the three.

I still don't credit Steve Jobs with starting any computing revolutions, in 1977 or 2008.

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