Ok? I didn't say it was rigged in the same way, just for the same purpose.

And I’m talking about the initial accusation that this auction was rigged in the same way.

I'm talking about the sealed copy of Super Mario Bros.

> The person who put up the item for sale at the auction house is friends with the people who own the auction house.

Not according to the article.

“Green considered selling the iPhone over the years, but kept it until she contacted LCG Auctions in October after learning that another first-generation iPhone from 2007 was sold for nearly $40,000. She told Insider's Jackson she needed the money for her cosmetic tattoo studio.”

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Not $65,536?

Whats the point of this article... were people forced to work at Amazon, were they forced to take bonuses likely every year thwy were there and now a market correction and people throwing their hands up, talk about entitled!

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The tricky part to AI entering into the work force is it WILL replace jobs. But as it replaces jobs, companies will compensate and demand more and the AI will need more managers to operate it which will create jobs.

For example. Today we have coders and managers who lead the coders. Ai enters and replaces more and more coders. But as companies see the AI doing more and more work they now demand more complex projects which requires more managers to review AI code.

The problem is that this boom and bust cycle takes time. And humans live short lives. So if you just happen to be entering the workforce when it’s an AI boom and a human bust, sucks to be you. 10 years later and you’d be a code manager but you were taught to code when AI is taking over coding so you just kinda get screwed.

The person who put up the item for sale at the auction house is friends with the people who own the auction house. And it was not ever sold for anywhere close to that price beforehand. If just those two bits of info aren't enough for you then I honestly don't know what is.

They should be paying us to use Facebook. The day they ask for a fee is the day I deactivate

The platform is nothing without content, people with many subs are the ones making the platform profitable. So let's extort some money from them to "protect" their accounts... perfectly rational if you're convinced there's nowhere else to go.

I have sneakers from the early 2000’s that go for thousands.

Needs to be something that revolutionized an industry. I think an unopened original iPod would sell for a crazy amount too. Anything after that, not so much.

Sure, if you like. I mean, there's no evidence that this was anything but a normal auction apart from a YouTube video from a speed runner, so I'm not inclined to jump immediately on to the conspiracy train here.

It's not a court, its just a kangaroo trial for IP theft. Western Tech has long since avoided being designed in china, even if they do take the IP, its useless without the source code.

The market they are trying to create, same way they created the market for retro games as we know it. Used to be just a whole bunch of regional collectors until the collectors noticed that a few people were just buying up tons of stuff but weren't selling it. A few years later we see the bullshit media piece about a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros selling for a million dollars. Yeah a sealed copy of a game that had millions of copies printed is somehow worth a million dollars. Nope just the owners buying and selling it to themselves to try and create a market to profit off of, and they did because people are dumb enough to fall for it.

Prison?

Allegedly, I co-authored papers on organic chemistry with my cat. All the links it provided were real, but there was obviously no mention of organic chemistry or my cat co-authoring anything with me.

Plot twists: maybe I did co-author them with my cat and the competition just wiped my brain. 🧐

Which is funny because odds are they are buying a product that won't work due to the battery in the cartridges not working anymore. They would be better off spending less money and getting one with a replaced battery.

I could probably make a pretty penny selling all of my old games but fuck paying someone to tell me how much something is worth. It isn't some antique it is a god damned game. Is it sealed? Do you have the box/manual? Does it work? Those are all of the variables that go into how much an old game is worth. If you think otherwise, send me $35 and I'll grade your response from 1-9.999999999 and if you pay me $35 more than once I'll another 9 on the end to make you feel better.

About the same price as the entry level iPhone 15

> No one sane is out there designing and printing PCBs like what you described for fun.

Yes we are. And it's only getting more prominent as it gets easier to do.

Hopefully it signals the end of common carrier protections for big tech

> many in those roles think you’re dumb and deserve to be poor.

I noticed this when I used Blind. Bunch of SWEs patting themselves on the back and mocking every other role. I don’t feel bad for those people losing money or jobs one little bit. They should have humbled themselves more.