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[–] 157 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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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  • [–] 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Best I can do is a handful of dogecoin.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "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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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    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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  • [–] 120 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    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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  • [–] 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    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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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    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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  • [–] 80 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    This is why the family rate is an added 25%

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  • [–] 44 points 3 months ago

    Don't do business with crypto tech bro's. They are scammers and you will be scammed.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    This is at least the second time American crypto bros have used that word to name something and regretted it lmao.

    The last one was a company called nonce finance https://www.ft.com/content/43b00d73-8a76-494a-8b5f-87dcab406ea5

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    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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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Fitting for reddit.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Politely but firmly tell them to pay up before you choke them to death.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    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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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    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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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago*

    Nonce means something different to us folks in tech.

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I'm talking Nonce Sense

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Mildly infuriating

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago
    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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