• tyler@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Why would you reveal this with a video? Like…this is literally free money for the taking.

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        Probably make more in clicks and adds than they can make buying and scraping a very limited amount of probably-not-actually-pure gold.

        Certainly less work.

        (Edit: this is the irregular reminder to crack addicts and meth heads- flocke cameras have copper you can sell.)

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        2 days ago

        If there’s only 10k of them, you would definitely make more money collecting those yourself. Putting it on the internet like that ensures that every gold store in the country starts getting those.

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      3 days ago

      The people who made out like bandits during the 1849 gold rush sold panning equipment and shovels. This is the modern version of that.

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          I actually think the metaphor doesn’t really work when applied literally, except in the tautological sense. Banditry was a very poor lifestyle, only engaged in by the truly desperate.

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            I think we can both agree tautology works because it works, and that’s good enough for me.

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        2 days ago

        That was with an essentially infinite supply of people to sell to. There’s only 10k of these things, and putting it on the internet insures that you’re only going to get an incredibly small fraction of the gold sold back to gold stores.