- Why Steve Jobs and not the Apple II? Or even the iPhone?
Alternatively why not Seymour Cray instead of the Cray-1?
Or why not use one side for the inventor and the other side for the invention?
Jobs sitting there in an empty field just throws the whole set for me.
by shevy-java
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- Shall we forget that Steve Jobs conspired with other companies to pay developers less?
This is well-documented in courts (and also on many other websites, by the way):
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...
See:
"[...] Steve Jobs orchestrated an elaborate scheme to prevent poaching and drive down wages."
by throw0101d
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- > Mobile Refrigeration — Minnesota
The logistical chain for keeping products products is really interesting:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_chain
Besides food, another area where it is critical is pharmaceuticals.
by keiferski
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- The Jobs picture looks to be based on this famous photo of him in an empty house:
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/mt/science/jobsalone.jpg
by contrarian1234
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- weird design for steve jobs.. without context it looks like the depiction of some spiritual leader (which maybe is a bit funny given the early apple fanbase). I get he was a bit of a hippie, but that's not exactly his claim-to-fame
> His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection
i dont associate "reflection" with him. not to disparage him in the slightest, but its just not in the top ten of things i associate with him.
I then made myself laugh by trying to imagine a depiction of Bill Gates in the same pose
by derektank
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- I love how much Iowa embraces the man who saved a billion lives. He's also one of their two representatives in the National Statuary Hall Collection
- That is one ugly coin and doesn’t look like Steve Jobs.
It also makes no sense to not include a computer. I get the “California theme but Steve and hills and trees doesn’t jive.
- I can't find a photo of Jobs in sneakers and in turkish instead of a lotus pose. The only reference is this toy, which matches the coin:
https://majorspoilers.com/2013/10/17/toys-legend-toys-announ...
But the famous photo I do know doesn't match it:
https://milenanguyen.com/blog/steve-jobs-20s-the-head-of-a-h...
by SaberTail
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- And meanwhile today you can get more power than the Cray-1 (or Cray-2) from a single chip a fraction of the size of that coin.
Very quickly:
a dollar coin is about 550 mm^2 on a face
the Cray-1 could do 160 MFLOPS
an M1 chip has a die size of 120 mm^2
an M1 chip can do over 1 TFLOPS
- And on the side it reads "you're holding it wrong".
by boomboomsubban
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- It's not a major deal as nobody will use them, but it's strange to have a company on US legal tender. I wonder what percent of the run Cray will buy?
by b00ty4breakfast
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- if the intent is to bring attention to technological innovations, Jobs was not a technological innovator, despite what the decades of PR would lead you to believe. If we want to argue that he was a promoter of tech innovations, in his capacity as a businessman, I would find that less objectionable but I still don't think Jobs is the guy we should be highlighting, given his track record of screwing over the people doing the actual work and innovating. (though depending on how cynical you are, that is perhaps exactly the type of person that the Powers That Be would want to push as the face of innovation)
- I’d say these celebrate entrepreneurship more than innovation. Nothing wrong with that, but it does bother me that the true innovators often don’t get credit outside academia and enthusiasts well versed in the history.
Apple II was not the first usable by mere mortals PC. There’s a lot of contenders but one of the earliest came from Georgia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compucolor
Cray was not the first multiprocessor wide vector supercomputer, but it did innovate on it. I’d say Cray broke more fundamental innovation ground than Apple.
by mettamage
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- Hmm.. I would’ve preferred Wozniak.
They got the wrong Steve.
- Maybe its simply my personally opinion, but I agree with @tylerflick with the opinion that why not Dennis Ritchie. Sure, Jobs was a ridiculously effective *promoter*, and there is without a doubt a place for that role in the world...But i guess when i think *innovation* i think Ritchie, Woz, Cray, Admiral Hopper, etc...not, like, the business folks...but maybe i'm being too harsh?
- Norman Borlaug's story is amazing. He brought modern farming practices to Mexico and created a new strain of high yield disease resistant dwarf wheat at quadrupled wheat production in the country. Did the same in India, Pakistan, and Africa. Saved a billion lives as a result. Solved food as a limited resource for the first time in human history. We've now gotten to transcend food scarcity as a society.
It's super cool that the US Mint is commemorating his work.
by ta12653421
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- are these meant for regular circulation or are these "collection items"?
(Im not from the US, so Im not aware of local specifics)
- They could've put the Apple I or the 6502 or an Intel chip on there
- Hopefully the mint will offer free shipping via USPS again, and still accept credit cards over the web.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/07/22/138610663/doll...
by stevenjgarner
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- Minimum of $27.50 for all 4 coins ($6.88 per coin), or $123.50 for 100 of one coin (for 2025 [1])
[1] https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/american-innovati...
by fwgijcqywqeo
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- One day they will make a coin featuring Elon Musk with the quote: "Full Self Driving is ready in 3 to 6 month"
by blauditore
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- Not American myself, and never been there - are there really $1 notes and coins, or am I missing something here?
by surfingdino
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- I'd love to see Dennis Ritchie commemorated as one of the greatest Americans.
- The Cray-1 supercomputer icon looks like the outline of burning man's black rock city. Wonder if there was any inspiration from Cray-1 supercomputer's design.
by dudeinjapan
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- Steve should be meditating in a walled garden.
by kemiller2002
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- I'm writing this from a Mac when I ask this. Has Apple actually created anything that could arguably have changed the world? Resistant crops, the Cray, mobile refrigeration all changed the world. My iPhone's nice, but it's not exactly on the same level. Is there anything from Apple that I'm missing?
- Never heard of that Norman Borlaug guy. Sounds like a standup guy from his wikipedia.
by sombragris
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- Instead of Jobs I would have liked to have Dennis Ritchie in that coin.
by HarHarVeryFunny
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- Cray-1 - half computer (inner circle), half seating (outer circle).
- Every truck has mobile refrigeration for half the year in Minnesota.
- That’s a pretty awful likeness of Jobs at any age.
- The irony of all of this is of course not only that effectively no one has used any of the $1 coins since the introduction of the Sacagawea, when their value had basically halved since then, just based on official inflation fraud numbers; so it is unlikely anyone will ever see these coins either, unless you make a deliberate point to acquire and use them.
The government is clearly trying to do away with the freedom of coinage and bills, intentionally and unintentionally through its inflation fraud, and that decline of America is rather ironically encapsulated in this kind of cheapening of the currency in several literal and figurative forms.
And these coins are not even made of any durable metals that could survive history until another civilization can collectively wonder about how America could have ruined itself so quickly, after rising so rapidly.
They could have at least made these coins at least silver or gold, so some future intelligence could at least find them. But here we are, the government creating tokens with cheap iconography made of cheap materials and a face value that literally cannot even buy you a cup of colored sugar water anymore.
Frankly, who cares? Beyond saying “that’s nifty” while looking at the images of the designs; who here expects to ever see one of these “in the wild”?
Have you seen any of the 40 presidential dollar coins in the wild? How about the 29 “American innovation” coins that precede this set? Heck, how often have you seen a Sacagawea in the wild, considering there were probably about 2+ billion of them minted by now?
- Any info on the metal used for the coins?
- They could've put the Apple I, 6502, and Intel pentium, or even the frickin iPod on there
by zitterbewegung
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- Dipping dots had a subsidiary made and helped refrigerate them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dippin'_Dots?wprov=sfti1#
- Featuring Jobs without Woz is actually disgusting. IMO, as a child of the 80s, Apple becoming popular and innovative required both.
EDIT: And forgot to mention Jef Raskin, who together with Woz played a pivotal role engineering the first Macintosh in 1984.
by whalesalad
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- Everyone in here is concerned about whether or not X, Y or Z should be on the coin. I am asking myself, why the hell are we minting a new coin at all.
- Woz should be on the coin and not Jobs.
- If you’re gonna do jobs, do wozniak as well like jesus, one has actual American values, the other was a ruthless friend-fucker
by JumpCrisscross
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- What happened to Trump promising to cancel the penny? It was a genuinely good idea that should have carried on to the nickel and dime. (I’m divided on $1 and $2 coins.)
- That Steve Jobs coin really looks cool. It's the sculpture of him sitting cross-legged, surrounded by hills of Silicon Valley.
I wonder if these coins are available for purchase by the general public? anybody know?
by overflyer
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- Steve Jobs was an absolut malignent narcissist and a copycat. Why not Dennis Ritchie for example? This is ridiculous.
by diego_moita
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- When Steve Job died all major newspapers, magazines and television news shows dedicated major space and time to report his death.
One week after someone far more important died: the co-creator of the most influential computer program in history (Unix) and the most influential programming language in history (C). Very few news media outlet reported the death of Dennis M. Ritchie.
I argue that Ritchie's legacy runs deeper and wider than Jobs'. Almost all CPUs and microprocessors existing today run code that was implemented using technologies created by Ritchie, from ABS breaks to satellites. But, even in this forum, many people don't know about him.
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by cassettelabs
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- And it's a first time Bill Gates had a thought that he would better be dead by now.
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