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Or the boxes are pre-made and they ran out
Or the boxes are pre-made and they ran out
It’s essentially a payment plan here in the US. Switch to a new carrier, get an iPhone for free as long as you stay subscribed to their most expensive tier for a year. How it usually works is that the phone is sold to you on an installment plan, say $80 per month, and the “free” part of that is where they also give you an $80 bill credit each month. If you cancel early then you have to pay off the remaining balance of the phone in a lump sum.
You don’t seem to know the meaning of the word “spend”.
How much have I bought in crypto to hold myself? I don’t hold any crypto. The answer is zero.
The figure that appears in column E of Form 8949? Over a million USD.
You answers seethe of jealousy. You keep trying to pin the label “crypto bro” on me because you want to dismiss me as someone not worth listening to, and the money I earned as illegitimate and fake. You argue not because you think you’re right, but because you can’t bear to be wrong. To you, crypto is a scam with no use and everything it touches turns to shit, and everyone who says otherwise must therefore hold the opposite opinion and think everything it touches turns to gold. Binary thinking at its worst.
Your thinking is simplistic and devoid of nuance. You’re right about one thing though. I am condescending. Because you deserve it.
Reply if you desperately need to put in the last word with a feigned aura of coolness, and laugh it off, because there are no more arguments to be made. Only insults left. You won’t receive a response, and I won’t even read whatever you write, because this conversation is over.
Go buy a Cybertruck or something.
Read carefully, because it seems that reading comprehension is not your strong suit.
Wiktionary defines “crypto bro” as “an enthusiastic cryptocurrency supporter, usually male, especially a dogmatic and condescending one”.
You may notice I do not fit any of those categories, besides perhaps being male.
For the adoption of cryptocurrency by businesses and states, I am apathetic, even mildly in opposition. As for being dogmatic, I entirely am not, because I don’t give a shit.
But I will admit, you have successfully tempted me into being condescending towards you.
Why would I make up the number 1 most common interaction between a Cybertruck owner and a normal person?
But here’s a picture I took of his car while he was attending church (across the street from the grocery store):
And yes, you can tell it is new because it doesn’t have a number plate yet.
The picture was taken on 30 March, the interaction happened a few days earlier
(past tense)
But how do you define “crypto bro”? Sure not “any person who’s ever held cryptocurrency”, right? Because that would make 25% of the US population crypto bros.
I absolutely reject this categorisation. I don’t give a shit about crypto or any of the ideas behind it. It’s interesting from a technical perspective as a person who holds a computer science degree, but I’m in it for the money. Holding crypto is gambling, and nothing more.
The only crypto I hold now is for online poker sites and for buying precious metals on r/pmsforsale on Reddit.
What makes you think I’m a crypto bro?
I was walking to the grocery store when I saw a neighbour polishing his in front of his house. I said “Wow, a Cybertruck,” and he replied, “Cool, isn’t it?”
I said, “No, it’s a $120,000 go-kart made of scrap metal that will rust in a month.”
That doesn’t do the same thing, I guess the goal is really how to draw the outline of a circle
The reason is because it supposedly creates a moral hazard. This is the logic behind pricing for all sorts of medical resources (such as co-pays and deductibles). If there is a nominal cost involved to obtain the resource, then you will be incentivised not to use more than you need. But if it is free or costs too little, then you (and others) may choose to use a lot of the resource, far more than you actually need.
For example, suppose there is a $50 co-pay (a co-pay is essentially a fee) to see the doctor, and you figure you should go once a year for a check-up. In this case, you will not schedule an excessive number of appointments because you know it is not necessary and it will cost you money each time you do. If scheduling doctor’s appointments were free or costs very little, like $1, you may instead choose to schedule two or three appointments per year, because why not? Or maybe you will go see the doctor for every minor cold or stuffy nose. It’s not like it will cost you a significant amount of money. Or so their thinking goes, anyway.
Remember, the $50 you pay isn’t all that it costs. For every $50 you pay, the insurance company is probably paying the doctor $150.
Similarly, suppose a drug costs $100, but the insurance company pays $90, and you have to pay a $10 co-pay. You buy one vial, which is good for one month. The fear is that if the insurance company pays for all $100, since the drug is now free for you, you might decide to get two vials instead, just in case. After all, they’re free for you, right? This means the insurance company has to pay $200 for two vials of the drug but the benefit to you is actually pretty small. Again, this is how insurance companies think.
Now, whether this logic is sound or not, I leave that part up to you.
It’s more complex. In Photoshop, it’s a single tool. In GIMP, you make a circular selection, convert it to a path, and then stroke the path.
Not only is this more convoluted, it’s bewilderingly unintuitive to beginners and is definitely one of GIMP’s shortcomings.
I’m pretty sure there’s a GIMP plugin that does that if that is all you care about
I doubt that GIMP will ever overtake Photoshop. Adobe has the money to employ (and does employ) hundreds of experts in their fields to work on Photoshop for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Although GIMP is very impressive as an open-source project and a massive testament to how far the free software model can go, it is still, at the end of the day, made by a ragtag band of (mostly) amateurs volunteering their time. Adobe, by brute force, can deliver a higher-quality product just by having the resources to employ the best people to work for them.
I love GIMP. I use it for all my image editing needs and would never consider giving a dime to Adobe. But I don’t do it for a living and I respect the opinions of those who do when they say that GIMP isn’t a good replacement for Photoshop.
Just a cursory glance, but GIMP still doesn’t seem to support additive curves and CMYK support is still rudimentary and needs a plugin
For a real Photoshop vs GIMP discussion, I think I’ll leave a link to Franklin Veaux’s Quora post here.
tl;dr there is actually a lot of functionality in Photoshop not present in GIMP that most casual users will never use, but is very important to professionals. People don’t pay hundreds of dollars to Adobe just for funsies.
I think for a real Photoshop vs GIMP comparison from the eyes of a professional, I’d like to share Franklin Veaux’s perspective. He’s an author, graphic designer, and the infamous local polygamist.
The effectiveness of bans has always hinged on two factors:
For example, everyone knows that the odds of being caught speeding are pretty low, but if the punishment for speeding is ten years imprisonment, then very few people will risk speeding.
Similarly, even if the odds of getting caught violating this law is only 1%, if the punishment is banning the platform and shutting down the company along with a fine equal to a year’s worth of revenue, then companies will probably not want to risk it.
I think it’s also the case that it has a bigger impact on developing brains, who might be more easily addicted.
I don’t have any evidence for this, I’m just guessing here.
Yeah, what’s wrong with GNOME’s calendar? It’s basic and it works… fine. I use it for my daily tasks.
Window’s default calendar is similarly mediocre.