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This thread is very informative on your chances of carrying off a heist stealing this cube. Conclusion: Low, unless you're willing to take only a fraction of t
by RajT88 1y ago
This thread is very informative on your chances of carrying off a heist stealing this cube.
Conclusion: Low, unless you're willing to take only a fraction of the face value.
Thinking through it though - you might be able to get away with spending the cash overseas, where it will take some time indeed for the money to be under scrutiny by banks to see if the serial numbers are out of circulation. There's then problem of getting the money there without anyone noticing, then there's the problem of what kind of characters you're going to be defrauding overseas.
All told - probably a better idea is to use all that cleverness to make a 1.5 million dollars the good old fashioned way: Spending a few years saying, "Nothing from my end" on Zoom calls.
- sharkweek 1y agoVery relevant Key and Peele sketch: https://youtu.be/jgYYOUC10aM?si=YuTT_hR7y9t74mAQ https://youtu.be/jgYYOUC10aM?si=YuTT_hR7y9t74mAQ
- fortran77 1y agoIt shouldn't be a problem spending $1 bills. Nobody scrutinizes them. It'll just take a while.
- Peacefulz 1y agoI wonder how much time it would take to feed all of those singles into laundromat and barcade quarter machines. ;D
- noduerme 1y ago>> you might be able to get away with spending the cash overseas Outside the US is probably the last place you'd want to pass those bills off. Besides the logistical problem of physically getting an enormous stack of $1 bills past customs... there's so much counterfeit US currency out there that the level of caution is extremely high. Just spent a couple weeks in Costa Rica, and USD is not accepted anywhere if it is even slightly torn, worn, or out of date by more than a few years. Maybe you could tip with it, but that's about it.
- rand_r 1y ago> to see if the serial numbers are out of circulation. Cash cannot be invalidated like this. It would ruin the value of all cash since you could no longer trust cash from anyone. Only damaged notes are taken out and replaced by the government.
- takinola 1y agoI literally just said "Nothing from my end" on a zoom call. Still waiting on my million dollars though so not sure how reliable this method is.
- andrelaszlo 1y agoOnce you realize that this task is massively parallelizable, you're all set!
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoPoint me to these "nothing on my end" jobs and I will write software and make recordings that trigger the phrase at the right moment, lol
- RajT88 1y agoI definitely know people who do almost nothing (they mostly show up to meetings and don't talk), and get paid really well because they can tell stories decently about their impact, and nobody seemingly has the stomach to throw them under the bus. I get paid better than them for sure, but I'm also at risk of getting laid off because of the practical upshot of being a top contributor. I am sure I will eventually get laid off, and they will outlast me at this company. The tech industry is insane. While my "Nothing from my end" joke was tongue-in-cheek, it's parodying a very real dynamic.
- Yhippa 1y ago> I'm also at risk of getting laid off because of the practical upshot of being a top contributor Can you explain this to my pea brain?
- RajT88 1y agoLayoffs which are for cost savings sometimes target people with high salaries, because you can save more money with a single person being laid off. Those types of layoffs target the top earners and bottom performers. I have seen it. People who have been with the company for decades, people who were principal level, people who always had awesome performance reviews.