Well, I don't know much about the resolving power and maximum refresh rate of human vision but I'm guessing that the monitor they described is close to the limit.
The analogy refers to someone who has their thinking constrained to the current situation. They didn't imagine that computers would become resource-intensive multimedia machines, just as this person suggests the cable wouldn't be asked to carry more data than would be necessary for the 8k monitor.
I can imagine a scenario with dual high resolution screens, cameras and location tracking data passing through a single cable for something like a future VR headset. This may end up needing quite a bit more data throughput than the single monitor--and that isn't even thinking outside the box. That's still the current use case.
Do you have a crystal ball over there? I still think it's a clever analogy.
I know you'd like to characterize it as dumb luck because that would make you feel better. The reality is that I've been making small monthly bitcoin purchases for the better part of a decade as a part of a much larger retirement fund.
When the btc price hit $100k, I sold most of the initial investment so that now I'm just risking losing part of my gains.
You can call it lucky and incredibly stupid. I can call it calculated risk.
What's the point you're trying to make here?
You seem mad about el salvador's bitcoin experiment. They made a little of money on their little investment.
It's commonly used as a store of value. When people invest in gold, what's the use of that? They're not going to actually use the gold for its physical properties.
I'm American and the unit of value that I'm most familiar with is dollars. We could convert it into any currency that you'd like. I could have also said simply that their investment had about doubled in value and roughly had the same initial value as about 10,000 economy cars.
El Salvador apparently invested about $270 million in bitcoin since 2021 and that investment is worth about half a billion bucks now. Oh my god, ha, what idiots!
Well, I don't know much about the resolving power and maximum refresh rate of human vision but I'm guessing that the monitor they described is close to the limit.
The analogy refers to someone who has their thinking constrained to the current situation. They didn't imagine that computers would become resource-intensive multimedia machines, just as this person suggests the cable wouldn't be asked to carry more data than would be necessary for the 8k monitor.
I can imagine a scenario with dual high resolution screens, cameras and location tracking data passing through a single cable for something like a future VR headset. This may end up needing quite a bit more data throughput than the single monitor--and that isn't even thinking outside the box. That's still the current use case.
Do you have a crystal ball over there? I still think it's a clever analogy.