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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I think a shell game has cropped up around crypto, but I don't think crypto itself is a shell game. You just have to be careful.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Maybe... but the games played by the World Bank, all the world's governments and legacy currency investors are already bad enough.
Crypto is 10x worse - all while flying Mach 3 with your hair on fire.
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* Surprised Pikachu Face * ( /s obviously)
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How does that instance "persuade" you, outside the obvious point that it reinforces your feeling about crypto? Some major banks almost went belly up a few years ago. Doesn't persuade you to post about the Euro being a shell-game 
Article link: βDuring its growth, the Company suffered a series of losses that impacted its ability to match its assets and liabilities,β he wrote.
Yeah, that's what happened. To the banks here, I mean.
Lending money involves risc. If with "Crypto" you mean BitCoin, then no, it can't go bankrupt.
--edit
Currency speculation also involves risc. That's not a business model, but gambling.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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There it is again: "currency" speculation ...
It's a pot full of wishful thinkers playing chicken with each other; waiting for a self-serving whale to tell them when to "take the dip"; again.
The other "wish" is that this is winter, and summer will come; again.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: t's a pot full of wishful thinkers playing chicken with each other
Is it wishful thinking that the Yen will loose value?
It's not playing chicken and it not bad either; it moves part of the currency risc from the general public to the speculator. With risc reduction less volatility.
It exist since the invention of fiat currencies. Since their existance, we can bet a ton of wood (or a few grams of gold) against that currency.
Sounds wrong again, fiat is not a bad thing. It spread wealth among those without gold.
Gerry Schmitz wrote: The other "wish" is that this is winter, and summer will come; again.
Kids waiting for "better" times; for moving, marrying, getting kids.
Economical good times. Nothing lasts and even this shall go away.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well, well, well, if it isn't my favorite 2 part crypto story again.
1) Dunning-Krugerrands.
2) Money with wings.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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So I just got one of these:
Acer XG270HU omidpx 27" 2K QHD 2560 x 1440 1ms 144Hz AMD FreeSync Technology Edge-to-Edge Frameless Design DVI-D HDMI DisplayPort Built-in Speakers LED Backlit LCD Gaming Monitor
and the resolution is incredible - I can read small print again with my almost 60-year-old eyes.
However, because I've been using HP curved monitors for a couple of years, the screen bows out, at least until my brain "recovers" from looking at a curved monitor. Day 2 now, and it's getting better but not quite there yet.
So an experiment to see if curved monitors are actually bad - as in, because of the weird brain compensation, does it f*** up my vision generally, and possibly affects my energy level (as in lowers) because of the unnaturalness of a curved monitor.
I'll report back with unscientific personal experience findings, lol.
modified 15-Jul-22 11:10am.
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My eyes are approaching 64 years -- and I've had corrective lenses (and lately bifocals) since I was 9 for being near-sighted. I've never used a curved monitor -- I'm curious as to whether many CP members find them helpful.
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Craig Robbins wrote: I'm curious as to whether many CP members find them helpful.
I see no difference between curved vs. flat. I only opted for curved because they were slightly less wide than their flat counterparts.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Marc Clifton wrote: 2560 x 1440
Marc Clifton wrote: and the resolution is incredible - I can read small print again
The first though I had when I got my 27" 1080p monitor was that it was just like my older/smaller monitors, but with bigger pixels. So I feel like it's a waste of real-estate.
At its native resolution, text on my 40" 4K monitor is just a tad too small, so I tend to resize things a bit.
2560x1440 at 27" to me sounds like a good compromise. I would NOT want a 4K monitor at that size. I'll probably look for something similar when mine dies. Although it won't be curved - I can't imagine a curved monitor being part of a set of 3.
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I tried comparing a curved display to a flat screen once. It turned out that they were about equal in their ability to survive a flying barrel bushing from a model 1911 .45 ACP pistol. I've since given up comparing monitors, and gunsmithing while sitting in front of monitors.
Will Rogers never met me.
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My first big monitor is my current iiyama g-master gb3461wqsu red eagle (flat, 34'', 3440x1440) and I have to say... I don't regret at all the decission of buying it.
From time to time looks a bit weird depending on what you are opening, but in average is really nice and for films is like a mini cinema on the desk
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I bought a Samsung 46" TV quad density (3840x2160). I find the resolution is excellent, though I did change the scale out to 225%
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I lost my right eye a couple of years ago, and the surviving left eye isn't great. My monitor at the time was a fairly ordinary 20" flat panel. I quickly realized that pixels were just too small and text was fuzzy, even scaled up.
I looked at a lot of monitors, both curved and flat. For me and my vision, a curved monitor would be great for video and movies, but not good for text and programming. This is especially true since most of my work is creating UI's.
I bought a 24" flat panel.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well look. Since the earth is flat, monitors should be flat, right? π
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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The company recently gave the CAD engineers new HP ZBook 15 laptops with 4k screens. My thought was
(15.6" + 4k) = like why?
But I have to say the screens are amazing. They seem not only to reduce eye strain, they make you want to gaze at them. Their default text size is 225% btw, so that must be a known 4k thing.
Us coders were only given standard HD, but my next monitor will be 4k.
Bio: I am in my late 50's and wear glasses for reading and computer work.
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I'm 1.5 year on 34" 1000R curved monitor, and it is great. Still, I'm only 36.
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I've been waiting till the radius got smaller! What brand and model did you get?
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I will be curious as to what you come up with. I am a similar age to you. At home, I have curved monitors and at work I have flat. The flat monitors at work always look bowed out to me. Freaks me out.
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