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One type of strange result you can get from this is that if you have some weird small stock or cryptocurrency that doesn’t trade very much, you can give it a very large market capitalization by selling one share or token to your buddy at an inflated price, and then you can go around telling people “ooh look at the huge market cap of this thing, it is so valuable, it must have discovered a cure for cancer,” and maybe you can do bad stuff with that.
The Nickel Market Almost Broke
bloomberg.com
I like to call this fusion “the inspiresting.” Stylistically, the inspiresting is earnest and contrived. It is smart but not quite intellectual, personal but not sincere, jokey but not funny. It is an aesthetic of populist elitism. Politically, the inspiresting performs a certain kind of progressivism, as it is concerned with making the world a better place, however vaguely.
What Was the TED Talk? - The Drift
Issue 6
The emulated device in question is a Palm m130, a device released in 2002. It had a two-inch 160 x 160 display, was powered by Motorola’s 33MHz DragonBall VZ processor, and ran on Palm OS 4.1. Palm said the battery would last a week between charges, and you could even add Bluetooth via a card slot.
Here’s Why the Best IMAX Movies Still Need a Palm Pilot to Work
theverge.com
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