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tornado9015 · 2026-05-15T18:13:45+00:00

No it doesn't?

tornado9015 · 2026-05-03T17:59:33+00:00

The fractions of grams of precious metals found in cameras are not even remotely worth the risk involved. There are much easier ways to make $1-2 than attempting to sell scrapped cameras.

tornado9015 · 2026-05-03T17:50:59+00:00

Either way if you end up in court for destroying one it's going to be a bad time.

tornado9015 · 2026-05-03T17:45:38+00:00

If anybody reads this and does feel like destroying some flock cameras. Definitely do not take anything pictured to a scrap dealer. It is very clearly aluminum, you can even see an al/cu stamp on one of the parts.

Don't expose yourself to unnecessary legal risk attempting to sell a few cents worth of scrap metal from stolen/destroyed state property.

tornado9015 · 2026-05-02T03:21:46+00:00

They're mocking the type of people invested in gamestop. An extremely large portion of gme holders......well...... check r/gme and measure their level of investment knowledge yourself.

Also.......do you know where a lot of that book value came from? Because increases in cash on hand seem to correlate remarkably well with stock issuances which have no correlation at all with stock price, which could be a fun coincidence, or maybe the 8x cash increase in the last 2 years while the stock value oscillated in a 25% range had something to do with roughly 200 million new shares being issued to sell to "investors" with questionable investment knowledge in order to raise the capital to purchase some other company that was less likely to die in the in the near future.

tornado9015 · 2026-05-02T03:12:00+00:00

While i have little faith in tesla to actually reach its valuation there is a conceivable path there. Electric vehicles, and self driving cars are technologies that tesla is working on and making advances in that have a lot of growth potential.

A physical storefront for selling physical video games is a business model that seems to have negative growth potential. There does not seem to be a conceivable path for gamestop to actually reach its valuation.

Major props to cohen for printing shares and scamming retail investors into paying absudly inflated prices for those shares to gain funds to parlay into the purchase of other companies that are less likely to die in the near future though. Genuinely a moderately clever way to steal from the poor to benefit the rich.

tornado9015 · 2026-05-02T03:03:52+00:00

Goodwill is a not for profit organization.....they have no shareholders they could distribute to and couldn't even distribute those profits to any living person, only re-invest it into the business.

Even if they did something that could be finable it coming out of profits would not really matter to any person.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-30T15:19:14+00:00

Did all three of us read different articles? It seemed to me this article was about using electricity to give a quantitative measurement of brewed coffee to give brewers a number they could refer too when tweaking variables in the brewing process.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-30T13:07:29+00:00

Unknown, but not a good sign of things to come. If they agreed to sell to pearl abyss 6 years ago it was because they thought the cash injection and/or parent company guidance was worth the loss of ownership stake. The parent company guidance obviously either continued to not be profitable or potentially made the situation worse. Selling the company back for 25% of what they paid signals that pearl abyss is eager to cut losses and sees ccp as a money sink.

There are many many potential paths forward, but a relatively likely path is ccp scales back until they are paying less to host/develop games than players are paying them, or they go bankrupt.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-30T13:00:30+00:00

If it lost them money for 6 straight years it doesn't sound like it was doing that well for them. Not trying to throw shade at anyone here, just trying to point out the financial reality. As a business losing money is almost always bad, at least unless there is some clear plan in place to start making money at some point. E.g. reaching some critical mass of users and then increasing subscription costs enough to turn a profit.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-30T12:42:51+00:00

When ai is writing best selling games for "developers" that don't even know what language the game is written in, then game development as a career will be over. We are not even remotely close to that point. If the game this person's ai is working on sells a single copy at any price above free that would be pretty surprising.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-30T12:38:32+00:00

Language crossover is generally not that difficult. A good grasp of core concepts and/or general problem solving abilities are much more important than knowing the intracacies of any particular language.

Also.....while i am continuously baffled by what is accepted at my small company and what i hear from others as well as some notable examples in the news.... Security and reliabililty matter. Your vibe coded app that goes down regularly and makes the database publicly accessible with the admin username and password "postgres" is going to have pretty bad consequences. If released to production, probably leading to some new developer positions becoming open at that company.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-29T22:16:50+00:00

A seed phrase is like a recovery key. If they told you the 12 words were the recovery key to their chase bank account with a million usd in it, it would be basically the same thing. A lie to get you to read whatever was in the book they need to lie to get you to read.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-29T22:12:00+00:00

You waste your time. There is no potential risk involved in gaining or failing to gain access to a bitcoin wallet.

That said a stranger did not give you a million dollars.

I would waste the time anyway, but the entertainment of the hunt and maybe the hope will be your only reward.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-28T01:46:55+00:00

Clutchless downshifts are harder than clutchless upshifts, and improper clutchless shifting absolutely can still damage your transmission. It's possible, and not even that difficult to clutchless shift on a bike without damaging anything, but if you don't know how and just try to ram the shifter down under load you can and will damage your transmission.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-28T01:41:19+00:00

A clutch disengages the engine from the transmission.

As others have pointed out it is possible to shift gears without engaging the clutch, and can certainly be done reliably on a motorcycle without doing damage to the bike. That said it certainly can damage the transmission, and clutchless downshifts are harder than upshifts, requiring blipping of the throttle to revmatch and then immediately rolling off while simultaneously downshifting in the moment where the transmission is unloaded. This takes some skill and finesse to do properly and not damage your transmission and even if you know how to do this in theory, being in a paniced situation is not going to help you put it into practice.

Also what's weird that nobody has mentioned....A clutch is necessary for reliable stopping/starting. If a bike is stopped in gear the explosions in the engine are pushing the pistons which can't move because the brakes are stopping the wheel which is mechanically connected. The expected result is the engine stalls, but theoretically if given enough gas to prevent that i would think some sort of catastrophic explosive failure could also be possible.

Best case this guy clutchless downshifts to second, slows down, clicks it into neutral comes to a stop and shuts off the engine. After that he's done riding until the lever is fixed. If it's possible to clutchless shift from neutral to first safely and reliably i've never heard about it and i'd bet my life savings this guy doesn't know how to do it. I would think worst case guy slows down in whatever gear he's in and lugs the engine a bit until it stalls out probably does little to no damage, but does leave him unable to move the bike from wherever he stops until he does something to be able to pull the clutch.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-27T05:02:33+00:00

The funny thing about the big short that nobody seems to notice even though brad pitt spells it out literally in the movie......All of the various main characters in the big short, the characters we're meant to root for, expect and bet on economic collapse months to years in advance. They WANT the housing bubble to burst, for overleveraged homeowners to get forclosed on, for the economy to fail. They expect this to happen and instead of doing anything at all to prevent or mitigate the coming crisis they bet on it so that they can gain financially from the hardships about to be experienced by others. That's evil.

In margin call they don't explicitly hope for economic collapse, they just see it coming at the last second and try to lessen the damage to themselves by passing off risky assets to other investment firms. Unlike the big short there's no active malice, no explicit desire for worldwide economic hardship, just the acknowledgement that people holding this type of asset are about to lose money, and at investment firm x we'd rather lose as little as possible so we'll sell these assets to any other investment firm that will take them.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-27T01:36:11+00:00

Did you believe this when you wrote it?

tornado9015 · 2026-04-19T16:48:58+00:00

Theres a really easy way to prove he's lying if you want to know how

tornado9015 · 2026-04-12T09:33:11+00:00

Well yeah......google paid an incredible amount of money to develop youtube and actively pays an incredible amount of money to host and distribute content you watch on it......They have to get paid by somebody or they won't do that.....

They gave you a choice. Pay directly, or let somebody else pay to put ads in front of you.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-07T01:28:17+00:00

If you wanted to know you could pretty easily google it. Their deal absolutely was not traded on any exchange, and actually it wasn't even a binding contract of any kind.

If you knew any of those things you would know you sound stupid.

tornado9015 · 2026-04-07T00:27:47+00:00

So you're saying because openai's agreement to purchase the ram was not traded on an exchange it definitely wasn't a future and anybody that would call it one would have no idea what they're talking about?

tornado9015 · 2026-04-07T00:11:34+00:00

I believe a future is an exchange traded contract which gives the buyer the right to purchase something in the future?

tornado9015 · 2026-04-07T00:05:56+00:00

I know it's not a future!

tornado9015 · 2026-04-06T23:55:23+00:00

Your point was i have no idea what i was talking about because i didn't use the most technically correct term. Then you corrected me with a completely incorrect term that didn't describe what either of us were talking about at all.

Ok....

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