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Twirdman t1_ivscgm1 wrote

Reply to comment by zack14981 in [OC] Tech Layoffs in 2022 so far, percentage of total workforce by PieChartPirate

One the first iPhone was not a dramatic departure from existing technology it was a significant improvement over existing technology so your analogy is stupid.

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Second some of those are just plain stupid. They serve no function. What need does crypto fill? We already had secure, instant, online fund transfers and have for years before crypto. Crypto added nothing to this. All crypto does is waste an inordinate amount of energy to produce random digital strings of nothingness.

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Trixteri t1_ivtkqce wrote

the only chain that wastes energy is Bitcoin. the digital strings of nothingness are proof that everything really does exist there.

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zack14981 t1_ivscre0 wrote

The metaverse is to vr what the iPhone was to phones. I’m not saying I like the metaverse, but if you’re going to talk about improving existing technology, they’re very similar.

You can call crypto useless, but the fact is that there are billions of dollars circulating around in the crypto space. Calling a business that operates in that space and makes money doing so “not a real company” is just fucking asinine.

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timmeh-eh t1_ivsf3av wrote

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…. Challenge there is people wanted phones. A shitty vr version of second life is the answer to a question nobody’s asking.

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Hole-In-Six t1_ivstktj wrote

Are you calling beanie babys stupid! Because the fact is there's millions of dollars floating around the beanie baby space. - Some guy in 1999

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timmeh-eh t1_ivwir4z wrote

Well while I do think that beanie babies were stupid people did actually want them. The challenge Meta is facing here is nobody wants to buy expensive VR hardware so they can have a virtual existence.

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