Gen-A

Immigrant, linguist, geriatric millennial, and Oxford comma user

I'm interested in pretty pictures and the code that makes them and/or points to them. (he/him)

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$ touch art

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@benjamincowen How are the ITC stakepools doing?

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@AsILayHodling @Rob1Ham Why? Bitcoin doesn't care who owns it

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@kasemax @AkeelAhamed7777 @doctortarantism @SkanderSlander @thomas_fahrer Put very crudely: if blocks are coming in fast, the system makes it harder. If they're coming in slow, it makes it easier.

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@YoeriGeutskens @lheal @jmhorp Sorry to spam your reply, but it's interesting: when was the FT article, do you remember? Because apparently it was the Wilson government (1970s) that made the switch to the 'American billion' official in govt docs. It's been a settled matter for over 50 years, really

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@YoeriGeutskens @lheal @jmhorp ...since many Spanish speakers in the USA are likely to interpret it as 10^9 due to the influence of English.

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@YoeriGeutskens @lheal @jmhorp Yeah, German also has 'Milliarde' for 10^9, as you'd expect. Spanish, interestingly does have 'millardo', but it's only relatively recently that it was accepted, and I would say it's more common to say 'mil millones'. 'Billón' in Spanish should be 10^12, but probably best avoided

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@YoeriGeutskens @lheal @jmhorp The so-called "long-scale billion" has not been in widespread use in Britain since the mid-20th century. The 10^9 billion has been standard since before my parents were born. Anyone still using it probably also believes in phrenology and calls Thailand 'Siam'

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@jmhorp Oh, and it's completely wrong anyway. There are 330 million people in the US!

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@jmhorp No he couldn't. If he started to liquidate his stock holdings the prices would crash. Before he got 5% through his giveaway, his wealth would be down 50%

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@PeterSchiff Good for engagement though, isn't it @PeterSchiff?

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@PeterSchiff It doesn't matter. You got your engagement, which is what fuels your existence

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@PeterSchiff This is a childish, straw-manning, bad-faith argument that really just makes it look like the bitcoiners have got you against the ropes, Peter. The irony is that if your social security fund had been allocating to bitcoin over the last 10 years, it would be much healthier

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@namenumbers6 @Komaniecki_R If you can, then why not do it every 10 seconds and you've dropped another octave?

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@Komaniecki_R Accepting the premise that a single click of the vocal folds at regular intervals is (1) doable and (2) counts as singing — even when orders of magnitude below the pitch threshold of hearing — anyone who can master this skill can "sing" arbitrarily low notes

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@benjamincowen Who cares? I really don't see why you would waste your energy or increase your blood pressure over these people. Just do you

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@Vulture_CRF @williamsundead @InternetH0F Since they're expensive, and you never know if or when you'll need one, it would be great if there was a way to spread the cost among all of us, rather than having to pay a lot of money per trip and worry about the cost in an emergency situation

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@NonRev22 @michaeljswalker But those people also didn't vote for Trump

[drain @draincain]

Cognition Mandate
1/1 - 70 tezos
for @fakewhale_xyz Art Market day

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@schuld_eth @cervidswag I cannot express how much I hate these videos

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@Rainmaker1973 These are city cops that are doing this? Where I live they (1) send the fine to you by post; (2) leave a notification on your windscreen; (3) only tow your car away if it's really creating an obstruction, not just parked illegally.

Why would the city immobilise vehicles in situ?