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Posted by c249709 5 days ago

The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million(calvin.sh)
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DrNosferatu 4 days ago|
Did the author claim the excess cash there?
coldtea 4 days ago||
Or the counting is off...
devops000 4 days ago||
It’s so easy for them to print USD money that they don’t care having 1M wasted like this.
cvoss 4 days ago|
It is almost certain that none of these bills represent wasted money. The piece of paper and the money are not identically the same thing. The paper is a document that is made to represent the money. At some point, the document is made to cease to represent the money. The Federal Reserve routinely acquires and destroys old worn bills, replacing them with freshly printed ones. This, by the way, has little or nothing to do with "how much money exists".
ionwake 4 days ago||
I dont know the answer.

But I DO know, the most of HN is probably autistic and mostly agree on an explanation that completely defies Occams Razor.

The truth imo...

Its mostly a million, fake, stuck to the sides, padding in the middle, with a few bills missing from the top for mementos from the last installer in the room. Every now and again some more bills are thrown in if people start asking too many questions.

Which ironically represents the FED accurately.

behnamoh 4 days ago||
the homepage of this website is so cool, but also a bit pretentious. like, why would the OP include things like "#1 on Hackernews", etc.?
c249709 4 days ago|
glad you like my website. it's there due to the lack of other meaningful achievements
miles 4 days ago||
I was nodding in modest agreement with @behnamoh's comment on self-aggrandizement, but your reply brought a huge smile to my face. And visiting his linked website dialed the mirth up to 11.
dwighttk 4 days ago||
Inflation
ziofill 5 days ago||
"What if it’s hollow? [...] A money shell. A decorative cube. A fiscal illusion. The world’s most expensive piñata"

lol

moonlion_eth 4 days ago||
well actually...
divbzero 4 days ago||
It was $1M back in 2007.
ZoomZoomZoom 4 days ago|
> "No-no-no, that won't do. The cube is too small! Its puny size doesn't convey the crushing might of the American dollar! Hm. Do we have bigger dollars?"

> "I'm afraid we don't, boss."

> "Let's inflate it!"

> "The dollar?"

> "Not the dollar, idiot, the cube! With air.

> "On second thought..."

ZoomZoomZoom 4 days ago|
Yeah, that was clumsy, because you inflate the economy, a currency is depreciated.
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