Microsotf invented Windows, Nvidia graphics cards, Apple invented phones, Amazon online books.
WTF did Gold invent?
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it is shiny π
BLING BLING
It has been the best store of value for 4000 years until the advent of Bitcoin. In my opinion gold would have to be worth a hell of a lot more, just like Bitcoin.
If the M1/M2 money supply is around $200T, gold should be 10X where it is now.
But it isn't and gold's loss is our gain.
Gold is immutable, and can be refined back to it's 99.99 fine ounce. Apart from being shiny and possessing high conductivity, it's use in those products you listed there, from ASICS to mobile phones to graphics cards and quantum.
Gold will always edge bitcoin, because when the nukes inevitably fall, and all the nodes die in the EMP blasts, Gold will remain for whatever is left to pick up the pieces and start again.
But don't take my word for it, take 12 500 years of known history to be it's proof of work.
Also gold doesn't need a constant supply of electricity to keep running.
In the same way you could lock up photos in a drawer 100 years ago and still look at them today, whereas the images you took on that digital camera around the turn of the century are lost forever because nobody can read floppy disks anymore.
True, forgot about the electricity needs. I take that completely for granted actually;
I think CERN just transmuted lead into gold...
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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc
FFS.
Manly P Hall in a lecture or essay suggested that we went to the fait standard parrly because as the nuclear age dawned people were scared metallurgy alchemy was real.
Personally I think it was simply because you could defraud more, but it's an entertaining thought.
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Yes and Gangsta rappers π
And Spandex Ballet!
(Spellcheck changed to spandex and I canβt fault the robot on this one).
Fraud of massive scale. People in the past could just mix gold with whatever material and cheat unimaginably
Yes, but then streak plates fixed this.
In about 2000 BC. Not quite as good as a cryptographic signature, but better than any other trustless medium of exchange before 2008.
Clueless people today are vulnerable to gold substitution scams in ways that their great-grandparents were not.
Microsoft stole the idea of a GUI from Apple who stole it from Xerox.
actually they simultaneously ripped off xerox, but yes... and they both stole the concept of object oriented languages as well, because they made GUIs easier to reason about
If Iβm a chef and Iβve invented a secret sauce everybody raves about, but Iβm not prepared to sell it.
I invite you into my home, show you how to make it.
You go away, copy the sauce and sell it to become rich.
Have you stolen anything from me?
i don't consider it one of their crimes... the legal shennannigans and market manipulation, the psychological manipulation, the inserting themselves into governments everywhere, the bullshit copyright crap, the walled gardens, the blocking of external payment systems, their monopoly premium on their programming language systems, the list of their crimes is endless as corporations, and as dudes, bill gates has a whole trail of destruction left in his wake of interns and ex wives, and let's not get started on the vaccination campaigns or his key role in covid
What happened to my secret sauce recipe?
It became a Simpsons episode
This is true π
Douglas Engelbart was great.