holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer
- polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded
- the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit
- then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max
- temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges
hyperstitions.
hmm
finally admitted ipv6 is a mess and dropped an internet draft for ipv8
if an ipv4 address looks like 1.1.1.1, an ipv8 address looks like 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1
kinda wild it took 25 years to just suggest making the numbers longer haha
The amazing Black Heron or umbrella bird, shading the water with its wings and catching a fish. Phonescoped in The Gambia https://t.co/KZVGMFTmNr #phonescoping https://t.co/yH0czUB6tB ☂☂️☂️