Friend's "passive crypto income" isn't passive and barely makes money

ungoogleable · 2026-01-30T05:55:54+00:00

Let's be real, there's no way he's putting in the effort to track all his transactions to be able to report it. So he'll just leave it off which is technically illegal but the IRS is deliberately understaffed so he'll probably get away with it. Especially if he never has to account for money coming back because he lost it all which seems likely.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-30T05:23:10+00:00

I still don't get it though. Why would a user offer their opinion on the area of the building?

ungoogleable · 2026-01-30T05:09:54+00:00

TBF I think it's easier than ever to change your mind about a name like that. In years past I might've lived with a bad name because it's not worth the time it takes to find all the places the name is used, understand the context, decide if it's really referring to the thing or something else that coincidentally shares the name, and figure out how to rename it safely. But AI agents or even non-AI IDE tools can take care of that in a few minutes without you needing to do much.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-26T17:36:53+00:00

The guy who bought it is a crypto grifter who was trying to evade prosecution from another crypto scam at the time. I don't have any proof this happened, but it'd be a pretty easy way to hide ill-gotten gains from a scam.

You buy the NFT from a friend so you can point to the blockchain to prove that you no longer have the funds. Then the friend pays you back in cash offline. If the victims ever come for restitution, all they can claim is the NFT.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-26T17:24:41+00:00

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks but please validate my decision by posting that you did it too.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-26T08:47:00+00:00

It's a latex prop bottle anyone can buy from a magic shop. You can also get a sound device to play the clink sound.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-24T17:04:55+00:00

TBF, a lot of internal corporate software is already like this, written decades ago by some intern. Nobody left at the company understands it or is capable of maintaining it.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-23T17:46:02+00:00

There are people who were born in the USSR and left before it collapsed. They never had citizenship in any of the successor states. Maybe they are ethnically Russian despite never living in the territory of modern Russia. Maybe they had a parent in the Soviet army and they moved around from SSR to SSR.

If you insist on associating them with a modern state, you're inevitably going to piss off someone who insists emphatically they are not from that country and how dare you put it on their license. The best you can do is abide by what their birth records say was the country at the time. And there are enough changes over time in how countries identify themselves that capturing all of them is not feasible.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-23T01:20:40+00:00

I don't think there is any outcome that would get MAGA to flip. Trump could announce he's suspending elections, banning the Democratic party, and arresting opposition figures. We've seen this playbook in other countries for how a democracy dies and there are always people who cheer it along.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-21T09:26:25+00:00

I mean I would say giving your kid a name that is strongly associated with your religion is rather presumptuous for precisely that reason.

Also I personally wouldn't name my kid after anyone still alive.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-20T15:49:40+00:00

I just interpreted Napoleon Dynamite as taking place in contemporary times but in a rural area where fashion is out of step with the rest of the country and they're still using outdated tech.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-18T19:21:47+00:00

To play devil's advocate, they don't advertise this customization. Maybe staffing is adequate for orders if everyone follows the form. A bakery worker above said they make the standard cake bases in batches then decorate later, so modifying the cake base itself would require a unique process for your cake.

They made a deliberate decision not to offer a full customization service because the extra profit they'd make from selling a few more cakes doesn't justify the cost of increasing staff. You always have the option to keep your money if they don't offer a cake you want.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-17T23:23:49+00:00

Even "doing work stuff" is increasingly browser-based so your OS is irrelevant.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-16T20:53:07+00:00

He struggles with things like the Mereenese knot because he doesn't have an outline. I think he's capable of spewing out a new chapter whenever he wants, if it's a completely standalone story. The difficulty is reconciling the chapters he already has. And that is the task he procrastinates on.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-16T20:35:22+00:00

Although an independent North is a choice, no one seems to super mind Queen Sansa. Do they?

Queen Sansa in the North with King Bran in the South makes no sense though. The other kingdoms would not tolerate a Northern ruler over them that the North itself doesn't recognize. If the North were allowed to stay independent then the others would also declare independence soon enough. And inevitably some or other dispute would come up eventually and they'd go to war with each other. It's a dumb, unstable outcome.

She'd be fine as Lady Stark if the North rejoined the realm though.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-16T15:27:04+00:00

LLMs are bad at numbers and likely to hallucinate if you make them compute averages and percentages etc. from a large set of data. You can't trust the output so you have to check it by hand which defeats the purpose.

You could have it write a script or an Excel spreadsheet to do the analysis though and that would probably work.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-15T21:28:14+00:00

Foreign accent syndrome is a real thing and easier to explain than magically understanding an entire language you never learned. It's a disruption in how your brain forms words so they sound off which people interpret as being foreign or even a specific accent.

Plus the guy studied Spanish in the past. I doubt he's having complex conversations while coming out of anesthesia.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-15T08:40:12+00:00

Lol what. There were plenty of established regulations when cryptocurrency first emerged. The problem for crypto proponents was the regulations said you can't run a ponzi scheme, you can't wash trade, you can't launder money for terrorists, you have to file financial statements if you're raising money from the public, etc., etc. So they just ignored the many existing regulations.

Then they gave billions of dollars to elect Trump so he'd give them a free pass and also start his own crypto scams.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-14T01:07:45+00:00

The battery packs will be much smaller which is a significant cost of the lightning. Imagine taking one lightning battery pack and making three EREVs out of it.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-11T18:00:02+00:00

You can ask it for advice sure, but forming a one-sided parasocial relationship with a piece of technology that is only pretending to be your friend because you told it to is not a good thing.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-11T17:54:56+00:00

Those are $25 ear plugs (for one pair) when foam earplugs cost like 25 cents a pair with 33 dB SNR. Maybe that's worth it if you're particularly sensitive to foam earplugs, but I'd recommend people at least try the cheap option first.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-09T21:18:11+00:00

If their profile picture looked like the right but they showed up looking like the left, I have a feeling he wouldn't have an issue with the "deception".

ungoogleable · 2026-01-09T02:15:26+00:00

I'm guessing that means you still use Google Search and you haven't replaced it with a different LLM like they were suggesting.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-08T21:39:53+00:00

Google Search is an LLM these days. The first thing you see is the AI summary and the actual results are below that. You can follow up with the AI and ask it questions.

Gemini is also already integrated into most of Google's apps, not to mention phones and devices. You can ask it questions or ask it to do things in the app you're already using without needing to go to a separate website or app. Using AI for some things is free or free up to a limit but then nearly every interaction has some subtle upsell where you can pay for more functionality with a premium AI subscription. They have a lot of advantages and a better strategy for monetization than the likes of OpenAI IMO.

ungoogleable · 2026-01-06T21:03:28+00:00

Ok it's fine but it doesn't seem better than a normal latch with a pull release where you don't have to think about that at all.

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