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Dave was a friend. He was one of the most intellectually curious people I knew. Gone way too soon.

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The biggest advantage fountain pens have is physics.

Ink flow in a fountain pen is via capillary action (touch nib to paper, ink flows), as opposed to a ballpoint pen where you have to apply a small constant amount of downward force for the ball to have enough friction against the paper for the ball to roll. This might not seem like a big deal, but if you're writing a lot, it means that your wrist & hand will get much more fatigued with a ballpoint over time.

Put another way, ballpoints have absolute advantage over fountain pens, except for "sitting down and writing a lot."

It sounds like you missed the point of what parent was trying to say. As one of those people who was in the exact situation the parent mentioned, your concise and incrementally more correct explanation wouldn't have helped me when I had the same question.

Quite possibly because they don't want to do any of the things you listed in your first paragraph.

UPDATE: Also, sir, this is an Arby's.

Not unrelated: The House of Saud is losing a lot of money on the Credit Suisse rescue/buyout.

"The law doesn't have this exact word in it and therefore none of the observed effects of the law actually exist." is not the airtight defense you may think it is.

> in the opinion of many adults.

How many?

So.... let's say that was even possible, and you did that.

You pay: $20,000 in $some_coin (ignoring gas fees for the moment) 1/100 of annual royalties is $1,142, taxable at your marginal rate (say 20%), so $913 free-and-clear.

Even without doing discounted cash-flow magic, that gets you to an annual 4.5% annual rate of return. Not great, not terrible.

BUT, you're doing this all in NFT-land, which means either you hold it (in a cold wallet, ready to be shown once the next royalty agency asks who owns this stuff), some other entity holds it (and you trust them and pay their fees), and no one has stolen your metaphorical apes over the next 21 years, which is just what it would take to make back the investment. Also, making the double-bank-shot bet that courts will recognize NFTs as proof of ownership, and that the NFT itself does not become taxable property, as a security.

Short of some kind of presumably inherent joy in interacting with a smart contract, I'm really not sure what you intend to gain, here.

Looking at most of the auctions, this looks like: "these are the deals that don't make the hurdle rate of the typical buyers, so let's make some money selling them to the dentists who like the idea of owning a song and won't look too hard at the return."

I'd love to be wrong, but I'm not seeing a good alternate explanation.

That's the free space on the "edgy word salad" bingo card. You're going to have to write out a few more of those phrases to actually win the crappy clock-radio.

The telemetry is concerning, but I'm much more concerned about whoever else decides to use your telemetry hooks to exfiltrate data.

I'm 100% on board with trying out a new terminal that is fast and has features, but there's an implicit expectation of the simplicity of the communication channel, and... this is not it.

With that kind of attitude, how are you going to get more people to come in and provide you with exit liquidity?