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  1. Just joined and paid up. I watched a lot of college basketball this year so you guys are basically competing for 2nd and 3rd.
  2. Agree with your spoiler prediction. I thought we were gonna see it with Tracey in this episode.
  3. Someone help me out a bit here. I realize that for many applications, NFTs depend on subjective value. Why is an NBA Top Shot highlight clip worth money when someone can watch the same highlight on Youtube for free? It's the exact reason a Mickey Mantle baseball card (picture of Mickey Mantle printed on a small piece of cardstock with stats) is worth money when someone can look at the same picture on Google for free. There's perceived value in being the owner of something that is limited and that a large enough group of people has also determined holds value. If everyone suddenly lost interest (remember Pogs?) then the value would plummet. I'm struggling a little bit more with NFTs when it comes to digital art. A painting by Picasso is incredibly valuable even though a likeness of the same painting can be purchased from a website like art.com for a low price, then framed and hung on a wall in your house. However, there's a massive physical perceivable difference between the actual Picasso painting vs. a print of the same painting. The painting has brushstrokes, weight, imperfections. The print is a print. The owner of the Picasso painting physically possesses something that no one else in the world can possess, unless possibly you consider a very good forgery. There's a tangible difference. When someone sells a digital piece of art as an NFT, that digital file could have countless replica files that are physically indistinguishable. I've heard talk of NFT picture frames that would allow someone to display their NFT artwork in their home. If someone else displayed a copy of the same digital artwork file, would they literally be displaying the exact same .jpg image with the only difference being that one person owns a "certificate of authenticity" and one person does not? Although there is more value for the true owner, it seems like the value differential is much lower compared to a physical piece of art. Moreover, what stops someone like Beeple from later releasing a new NFT of the same piece of art? He just sold "The First 5000 Days" for $69MM. Since anyone can create a new NFT at any time, is there anything that stops Beeple from releasing a new NFT of the same file in a couple of years? Maybe as the buyer of a $69MM piece of digital art you are just taking it in good faith that he won't do that and devalue his entire art collection. However, the owner of "Le Reve" never has to worry about Pablo Picasso painting a second copy of "Le Reve". It's one of a kind and always will be. Curious what other people think. I'm still trying to sort all of this out and maybe the world doesn't even know these answers yet. I definitely think NFTs have a place in this world, just trying to understand what that will be in the long run.
  4. From what I've read, it seems like NFTs will become a pretty big deal over the next few years. It's finally given digital artists a way to create value for their work. With regards to NBA Top Shots, do you buy them directly with USD (credit card?) or do you need to purchase ETH first and then buy the Top Shots with ETH? I'm assuming the Dapper account acts as your ETH wallet and lets the process occur seamlessly? Just trying to figure out the mechanics.
  5. How is there not more discussion of this show? I think it’s great.
  6. Watched this over the past week and really enjoyed it. Great timing to finish last night with S2 starting today. Somewhere upthread I was critical of Joel Kinnaman but he’s actually decent in this. Ed wasn’t necessarily my favorite character, but I think he played the part well. I loved the scenes on the moon, especially the stand off with the Soviet cosmonaut. Lots of great tension. My only minor gripe is that some of the NASA scenes at Mission Control seemed a bit unrealistic for the sake of TV drama. For instance, I don’t think that during the intensity of trying to sync Apollo 25 with Ed Baldwin they would suddenly pause to welcome the returning Apollo 24 astronauts into the Mission Control room and distract everyone from the highly critical task at hand, or have a room full of family members and a bartender with no security clearance watching. But that’s a minor gripe and not a big detractor.
  7. Stupid newb question time... Last week was my initial deposit. I got 400 tickets and assigned 300 to the Surly pool and kept 100 individual. When I look back at the results, I won $0.90 based on 9 tickets that won $0.10 each. I take it based on the breakdown that each of these were my individual tickets and none of them came from the Surly pool? Is that because the Surly pool didn’t win anything (seems unlikely for a pool that had over 5,000 tickets to win nothing and my individual tickets to win 9 times) or because I entered the pool mid-week and that means I didn’t get a cut of that week’s pool winnings? It looks like based on active tickets for this week, there are ~32 pool tickets with 2 correct matches. I’m assuming those are pool tickets because they have an ‘S’ to the left side with the people icon. And since I have 300 of the 5,421 active pool tickets, I would get 5.534% of the pool’s winnings? I made another deposit and assigned all 400 tickets to the Surly pool which I assume takes effect next week.
  8. That assumes that doses are not spoiled by lack of refrigeration during the power outages. It would be nice if major cities could implement regional collection efforts to round up vaccines that are at risk and move them to hospitals or wherever. Maybe that’s already happening or maybe refrigeration failure isn’t actually a problem right now.
  9. I'm curious what effect this winter storm is having on vaccine efforts. Hopefully there aren't a lot of doses going to waste due to interruptions in supply change, storage, clinic schedules, etc.
  10. Also in 76107, lost power for ~2 hours overnight, everything is good since then. Has anyone been out? What are the main city streets looking like around town?
  11. We binged this over the past week and loved it. I was skeptical about watching it for a long time but it had overwhelmingly positive reviews and it lived up to the hype. All of the characters are great but I particularly loved Nate, Roy Kent, and Beard. It’s also a much needed breath of fresh air with its general positive and uplifting tone.
  12. Does anyone know if the U.S. is still requiring a 14 day quarantine for people returning from international travel? I remember that being discussed in early January but now I don’t see it anywhere. It seems like they dropped it and replaced it with the requirement to test prior to re-entry. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/after-travel-precautions.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/ea/covid-19-information.html I’m considering a long weekend in Mexico (probably Tulum) next month. I’m fully vaccinated and I’m not worried about the testing part, but I don’t want to do it if I’m required to also quarantine upon return.
  13. I signed up and joined the pool. Is there any reason not to allocate all of my tickets to the pool? Just hold a small percentage back to give myself a slim chance of winning a good prize solo?
  14. I can't remember the last time I saw a rebel flag on a truck, maybe once every year or two? Yet here you are seeing multiple rebel flag stickers on trucks in parking lots of churches you don't even attend. Do you get bored on a Sunday morning and go out looking for something to be angry about? You're so full of shit and you know it. Just own it and bow out of the thread. I'm leaving as well because I have much better things to do than argue with you about whether or not your perceived enemies are actually justifiable enemies.
  15. It appears that you have labeled a large group of people who you don’t actually know as being racist. I guess your basis for this claim is that they identify as cowboys, or country folk, or merely that they are different from you and therefore must be less woke and more evil. If you have some factual basis for your accusations then let’s hear it. Otherwise you are just making up stereotypes to help fill the world with fake enemies for yourself to look down upon. I have never been to a cowboy church, don’t drive a truck, don’t own a cowboy hat. I don’t care about them but it irks me to watch people fling shit at other people all the time with no remorse. How are we supposed to come together as a country when people think like this? Maybe try looking for the good in other people for once instead of assuming every group unlike yourself is inherently evil.
  16. Here now. The snow is great. Had 6” fresh powder the first day and did some great hike-to runs in Black Iron Bowl. We’re doing après ski in our hot tub, which is amazing when the snow is falling on you. Had carry out Brown Dog and dine-in Floradora. Fully vaxxed. Snow is coming down - tomorrow will be fun.
  17. When are you going?
  18. Perhaps Leto wasn’t the killer, but he’s a textbook example of play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Maybe not a great idea to tell a cop you know where a missing girl can be found, then have that cop go out into the boonies with you in the middle of the night, then ask that cop to start digging holes while you taunt him about his children. All the while, impeding an investigation into actual murders and an actual missing girl. If there are people in real life that pull that shit, they deserve whatever comes their way. It’s basically suicide by cop. Everyone loses.
  19. I liked Dunkirk. Not my favorite movie ever but it was far from dogshit. It got an 81% audience score on RT and an 8.3 user rating on Metacritic. It won 3 Oscars. It’s fine to not like it, but recognize that you have a minority opinion there, and not some universally accepted truth.
  20. 60 Minutes had a segment on this topic last night. The full piece is at this link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-home-genealogy-testing-risks-60-minutes-2021-01-31/ The 60 Minutes Overtime piece from Youtube is here: Edit to add - The same episode had quite a bit of discussion regarding Chinese collection of American DNA and mentioned that many of these American companies have Chinese investors. Pretty concerning where this is headed.
  21. No Time to Die Dune Mission Impossible 7
  22. Got my 2nd Moderna on Friday. I was expecting to feel somewhat sick over the weekend but the only thing I had was significant arm soreness (enough to wake me up from sleep the first night) and a mild rash on my torso. Definitely worth it though.
  23. Thanks everyone for the feedback regarding potential Tesla purchase. I'm thinking it will be the Model Y long range, but probably a couple more months before pulling the trigger. On a separate note, is there a thread on this site for the general discussion of EVs vs. ICEs and the future of the auto industry? I'm interested in learning more about other car companies shifting to EVs (for instance, GM recently announced goal of 100% EVs by 2035 and that seems worthy of discussion), environmental impact of EV production including mining of battery components, recycling of batteries, end of life concerns, electricity production as charging demands increase, etc. I don't have a dog in the fight in the EV vs. ICE debate, but I would like to be better informed on the topic as a whole. Should that be a separate thread somewhere?
  24. The Chase SWA card is currently offering 50,000 miles when you spend $2k in the first 3 months, then another 30,000 miles if you spend $10k in 9 months.
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