... That's like $100,000 a person. Not to mention transportation costs, costs to house them while in custody, cost to apprehend them.
Makes absolutely no sense. Spend $100k on anyone, and you can make them into a valuable, productive member of society (assuming they weren't already).
I've polished to a practically mirror shine with progressively finer and finer grit sandpaper. Took an eternity. Worked for the purple I was using, but it might not work for all colours.
I've also tried heating PETG with a butane lighter out of pure frustration. It does work, but the line between restoring the surface finish and deforming the print is very thin.
Wow, after reading your story, my ragequit is peanuts in comparison. I almost don't feel like posting it!
Normally I'm a lot more humble than this, but you're all strangers on the Internet, so you'll just have to take my word for it, but... I had performed extremely well at my software development job. "Exceeds expectations" kind of performance review. I had led the architecture of several large efforts, and consistently delivered features.
Promotion time comes around, and I get a 3% raise. Eh, whatever. At least it meets inflation.
I find out a bit later that one of my coworkers (quite talented in her own right, don't get me wrong) got a title increase and a much more meaningful salary bump.
So I talk to my manager about why she was promoted and I wasn't. We both had similar performance reviews, had led similar projects, and so on. I was prepared to accept it if there was a good reason. There wasn't. There was only budget room for one promotion, and she had been hired at a more senior position than me, though I had been promoted to match soon after I started. That's it. No logical reason other than seniority.
I was butthurt, and started looking for a new job right away. Ended up snagging a great gig in a few weeks.
I keep in touch with my old co-workers quite regularly, and I guess some activist investor forced through policy changes and gutted the satellite office I worked at. I guess I dodged a bullet there.
That's interesting. I come from the Gentoo world, so Gnome without systemd isn't too uncommon.
Oh boy, that brings me back... After they blocked net send, well, let's just say my school board's internal single sign-on had an SQL injection vulnerability and plaintext passwords...
But you don’t. Everyone can download the picture of ‘your’ ape and use it. You can claim to own the copyright on it due to some blockchain mumbo jumbo and try to sue someone who uses ‘your’ property but do you realistically think you’re going to get very far with that lawsuit?
This is the "right click save" argument.
Sure, you can save a copy of it, but that's hardly the point.
Anyone can print their own Magic the Gathering trading card or fake bank note. A counterfeiter, ideally, cannot prove their copies are legitimate because of the security measures in those objects.
The blockchain, in this analogy, is closest to those security measures.
Someone who has simply copied the image cannot prove ownership of the token.
An NFT itself cannot be copied, which is the whole advantage over just a PNG/JPEG on a webserver.
I mentioned in an another comment that the copyright sometimes, but not usually, accompanies the NFT. This is a whole other can of worms, and I am not qualified to discuss it beyond that.
No one believes in the value of an NFT except for a small number of delusional tech bro’s, so that NFT has no actual value
If you're talking specifically about art NFTs, I fully agree with you. They're as useful as beanie babies.
If you're talking about crypto as a whole... Coinbase alone has millions of customers, so not exactly a small number. (source via Wikipedia)
Oh god, I know... I assume you're probably talking about NFTs as a whole, but even as someone in the space, these dumb tokens give us all a bad name...
There are actually useful NFTs! Like you can get an NFT name like example.eth (like a domain), and use it instead of an address in most Ethereum software. That's so much better than stupid apes...
edit: also, I really appreciate the acknowledgement; people can be really, uh, hostile.
You might be confusing the base URL with the token URL?
For example, for token 5972: https://dweb.link/ipfs/QmeSjSinHpPnmXmspMjwiXyN6zS4E9zccariGR3jxcaWtq/5972
That points to:
https://bafybeigj6rjkhwoohilugp4necbo5o3ptzl2ny2drex7blwyrygn2y34be.ipfs.dweb.link/
I could, but I'll probably stick with KDE until I reinstall. It ain't broke, just not exactly what I want.
For the most part, yes, but as the commenter above put it so eloquently...
Apparently the apes are stored on IPFS, which is a distributed file storage system. As long as one copy exists, you can prove that copy is correct against the chain. Anyone can host a copy.
I thought they were plain HTTP as well!
Source: https://etherscan.io/address/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118a18a936f13d#readContract#F6
When you buy an nft, you but a number
When you buy an NFT, a storage slot in the contract's (contract == dumb Ethereum nomenclature for a program running on the blockchain) is set to your account's address.
This is very similar to how any traditional database works, so nothing new here.
(and since you can't own a number, you buy nothing).
A counterexample: This sentence is encoded as a number. I own the copyright for it. Someone could buy the copyright for it.
Unless you're arguing the semantics of ownership? Like you can't own a number because you don't have exclusive use of it? If that's your point, I'd generally agree. In the case of an NFT, you have exclusive use of that abstract "thing" represented on that particular chain.
The fact that you got scammed because some people told you that this number gives you ownership of anything is meaningless.
If I can exchange my number for something else I want, or it has some intrinsic value to me, it's hard to argue it's meaningless. I have a few NFTs simply because I want them, and couldn't care less about whether anyone else finds meaning in them.
With your example of a dollar, it would be as if you were given monopoly money and you were going around thinking that you're rich. Sure, if you find people that fell in the same scam, they might accept your fake money as payment, but that's the extent of it. It's basically a group of deluded people who imagine that they have something of value while they simply have a meaningless paper.
How do you think regular currency works? Everyone believes in the value of a dollar, so that dollar has value. Imagine you were trapped on a barren island with a stranger. You have a hundred dollar bill, and they have a box of rations. Suddenly your dollars are rather meaningless, no?
That is also why you can easily print monopoly money, but not real money. One has a value, the other doesn't.
Have you tried printing cryptocurrency? That's kinda its whole raison d'etre.
: hopefully they share out of the goodness of their heart!
Niri gang represent!
I caved and used KDE on my last install, and boy do I miss Gnome.
Not that KDE is bad, but Gnome is just so my style.
I wouldn't say I'm a crypto bro, but I've been interested in it from a tech point of view for a long time. I much preferred when no one knew cryptocurrencies existed 🤣
You're right! The copyright can be transferred separately from the token, just like a trading card (eg. Magic the Gathering) can be bought and sold separately from the art.
If you like the art style, I think this is from The New Batman Adventures. Or maybe one of the movies from that era.
Mark Hamill is the best joker.