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lemmy.ca

If it has crypto anywhere on it, or so much smells slightly of crypto, you make sure you’re paid in real money up front.

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MBechreply
feddit.dk

"No but look bro! I'll give you a bit of Dogecoin, and if you wait bro, they're going to be worth millions in no time bro! Trust me bro, I'm giving you much more than just money bro, it's the future bro!"

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Don't spend your own money on a friend or family member's pet project unless you're willing to consider that money a gift if you need to.

The 'cousin' part is the part that's tripping him up here. Any other business venture telling you "I can only afford to pay you if you redo it" could be met with a retort of, "That isn't the terms of our contract. If payment is not rendered according to our contract, I'll be seeing you in court."

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piefed.social

Probably unrelated to this, but 'nonce' is a concept in cryptography (not the cryptocurrency-kind), a number used only once in a cryptographic operation.

Apart from the colloquial British use, that is.

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brapreply
lemmy.world

Thank you for explaining, I only know nonce being used to refer to someone as a pedo so Noncefest certainly raised an eyebrow. I can only assume this guy was unaware of the meaning.

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mander.xyz

The slang term for pedophile is only used in the UK, hence the Americans keep doing this.

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I knew the crypto term only, there desire to change the name makes sense. Still the nonce's responsibility to pay for the work done.

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9point6reply
lemmy.world

As someone from the UK who works in software engineering, the combination of meanings is always hilarious

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It's like being psychology adjacent and having to double check which CBT do people mean

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thank you i had to look up the british slang now, as I could only think of the cryptographic association

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nonce did used to be an English word too meaning "of/at the moment" or "for one purpose" so Number used Once is actually a backronym

It derived from Middle English was "tō þen naness" which is roughly "best item for a purpose" literally, but is used to mean "something" or "disposable/temporary" in context.

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outlawcarlreply
fedinsfw.app

Am from the UK and my mom would call anyone she didnt like on TV a nonce (turns out she had a high accuratarcy rate) so i grew up thinking it just meant stupid, which resulted in me calling myself a nonce when making a mistake at work to peoples shock and amusment.

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quokk.au

cryptography (not the cryptocurrency-kind)

This may be pedantic, but that is the cryptocurrency kind. The "crypto" in "cryptocurrency" literally comes from the term "cryptography". It is currency that is secured by cryptographic functions.

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I'm well aware.

Most cryptocurrency pushers are less interested in the underlying cryptographic fundamentals, however.

Cryptography is undeniably cool. Cryptocurrency is undeniably not cool.

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Cryptocurrency is cryptography, but cryptography isn't cryptocurrency.

There's a good reason to note that a term that most uninformed people might assume is unrelated to a shitty thing people hate. Kind of like how a lot of shit we used to call AI has to be clarified as non-llm because the llms have become the initial connotation to AI.

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Cryptocurrency uses cryptographics, the WEB uses cryptographics! Everone uses cryptographics.

It's a banana is a fruit moment.

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Why would the "North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes" want these wristbands?

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lemmy.wtf

Paywalled, doesn't even allow to view a word but the title.

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lemmy.zip

If you did the work they requested, isn't the cost of renaming the bands kind of their problem and not yours? This you should still get paid for the work you did.

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Appoxoreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I assume there is no written contract and if, would you be willing to sour the relationship?
Definitely leaves a bad taste.

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infosec.pub

Just because there was nothing in writing does not mean there was no contract, it just makes it harder to sue.

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Written contacts aren't the most binding forms. Prior behavior and how other people are treated is more binding. If 10 people sign a contract, and it's only enforced on one person, the written contact isn't binding.

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Flip the question, would the person that made the name change be willing to sour the relationship? Kind of sound like they are.

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and could only afford to pay me if

Me, a business genius: "I'm getting in on the ground floor!"

Also me, "There's not a lot of money on this floor. Seems they've been keeping that shit up at the top."

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On one level, it’s an epic cockup. On another, it’s a revelation of a deeper, more poetic truth.

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Maybe they can be turned into " I  NCE  LS    2026" with some scraping but my hunch is that that's not the current name of the conference

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My 'family's ages are the regular rates. Friends and family should be the first supporting your endeavors. I have never asked friends or family for discounts, but I do look for offers kn anything else.

That person would be on my shitlist faster than Bitwarden's decline on the change of CEO.

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Nonce means something different to us folks in tech.

Still should've gotten paid up front by a crypto-bro

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lemmy.world

If it's hundreds of bracelets then a 3d printer is not the right technique for this. With pad printing those would have costed 1/10th less in materials (the cheapest rubber bands from Alibaba) and be done in 1/100th of the time (5 seconds for each one instead of 1 or 2 hours each)

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Hoimoreply
ani.social

It says "printed", could be any printing technique. Is there something in the picture that points to 3D printer?

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  1. It's raised and on some black letters you can see there are lines on the surface with a different light reflection like the nozzle does on TPU.

  2. it's printed on colors that are typically available on TPU (it's not like pla that comes in every conceivable color)

  3. It has a weird drop shape when closed, like if it was designed to be printed flat

  4. He says "weeks to make them" when showing a dozen. With a week of production in pad printing you can do millions of units.

  5. With pad printing he could have used the traditional round rubber bands

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