Equity analysts said the wholesaler priced its gold appropriately by selling about 2% above spot prices to members before a 2% cash back reward for executive members and an extra 2% in cash back for those with a Citi card.
I realize not all of their customers get either or both of those discounts, but it still seems like they'd take a loss on a bunch of these sales.
It's entirely possible depending on where she was and who she had to deal with:
Right from the airport she may have been mistreated by employees, which are all state employees still (Milei is currently in the process of dismantling that). The airport mob obliges you to their shitty services at ridiculous costs, so they treat you like their bitch. Because you (we) are.
Making the first step out from the airport gets you in the next trap which is the cab mob. Again, Milei is in the process of dismantling that too. The cab mob obliges you to their shitty services at ridiculous costs, so they treat you like their bitch. Because you (we) are.
Right after surviving that you are now in the Capital, where you are likely to encounter the infamous stereotype of the locals, the "porteño". They are used to be treated like the center of the universe, because everything was structured so that the Capital centralized all economic flow and power. So they treat everyone like "inferiors". They are insufferable entitled jerks exactly as your cousin described. The "porteño" is the most indoctrinated unit inherited from the socialist regime, and one of the things they are instructed to believe is that all and every shortcomings the regime ever had were solely caused by "foreing intervention, specially from the USA". Because, of course, socialism can never fail. So it has to be the USA sabotaging everything. So many entitled jerks, armchair revolutionaries, might be bitter to USA and UK foreigners. But apart from that, they are default bitter to everyone, specially to other Argentines outside of the Capital.
Then, if she visited mostly traditional tourist destinies, she might have been treated like shit again because people on those posts usually hold sole possession of whatever shitty service they give because they have a deal with the local govt. So it's a "tourism mob" that again, obliges you to their shitty services at ridiculous costs, so they treat you like their bitch. Because you (we) are.
That said, she was also very unfortunate. It's not that common to find a majority of jerks. She had really bad luck. There's also a common trait of the Capital and its suburbs and it's that there's so much people and so much activity concentrated in that zone that people tend to be always in haste and they are so used to it that even among themselves they don't perceive hasteful manners as mistreatment. It's just normal to them. That also has lead to a culture of hasteful expression in which people sound like entitled jerks literally all the time because it became a cultural mannerism, and they will talk to you that way not meaning to offend you at all (and I know that first hand because I have family there that sound like that but they are sweet and mellow).
Shucks, you got me. I freely admit that my first impulse when I saw your zap was to withdraw it to my LN wallet. Then I read that you wanted me to play with it and take note of any insights that crop up. Sure I will do that n play in the big leagues haha.
Now for why I only zap 50-60 sats (though that has increased thanks to @Undisciplined’s cajoling - I used to zap at most 20 sats haha)
The 21 cents per day is more symbolic than significant. I think that’s my coping mechanism to deal with the stresses of working life. I do love being a teacher and am pretty sure I’m not in the midst of any middle age crisis - but darn, teaching is hard. In the sense that every day I have to face so many (sometimes competing) demands from my colleagues and students - chasing for forms, attending meetings that have nothing to do with teaching, helping students get their uniforms, disciplining errant students. By the time I get down to it, I hardly have the time and energy to create great lessons - the thing that fills up my tank and makes me feel productive. Unfortunately, teaching is a microcosm of life; shit just happens. I cannot control all these variables that are part and parcel of my job. So every morning I zap myself in an attempt to exercise some control over my day.
On the practical side, I aim to buy a Bitrefill gift card at least once a month. I usually buy a supermarket voucher. So in Singapore, my trusty supermarket is part of a digital bank. So if I use the gift card and pay for the excess using my debit card, I will qualify for the higher interest rate. Provided that I make five transactions with my debit card, that is. The interest rate is nothing to rave about tbh, but I like the idea of working steadily towards a goal and seeing my sat stash increase haha. Exercising control over my life (back to point 1)
The selfish side of me doesn’t want to zap too much because I notice that some Stackers hardly zap others. But it isn’t my prerogative to tell people what to do with their zaps. Neither do I want to turn out to be a calculative Stacker who maintains a mental score sheet about how much I’m giving and receiving. If I relate to a post/comment, I will just zap it 50 sats - plain and simple.
So, I increased my default zap to 168 because in Chinese, it means “prosper all the way” (一路发”). It hasn’t even been one day but I have noticed certain changes:
Zapping is more meaningful to me because 168 is a symbolic number to me. It makes me feel that I’m spreading good luck around, especially since Chinese New Year is around the corner. Haha. Also I’m loving the darkish green zap - it makes me wonder just how many colours there are available!
Since my default is 168, I have to think more carefully about zapping a comment. Maybe my commenting behaviour has got to change. Maybe some Stackers have high default zaps, so they zap others but not me. I should just focus on developing my thoughts substantially so that people can’t help but zap my wonderful comments haha
Yes the "vaccine problem" could be solved by simply removing liability protection. This would force vaccine makers to do proper safety testing and to properly disclose those findings.
This would allow the public to make informed choices. If you had a 1/50000 chance of developing a heart arrhythmia however it protected you against some major pandemic....you could choose the path of the lesser evil.
There are certain tradeoffs that probably wouldn't be worth it....for example when my kids were young I was talking about this concept to his pediatrician (who was not a vaccine pusher)....and the Dr said "basically the risk of severe reaction to chicken pox is fairly minimal and thus might want to just risk it if vaccine side-effects are a concern"
We block scammers all the time. They just come back with a different ID lol.
We will not have a scammer issue on the private server, because we are charging $$$ to join the server. You get removed, the only way to rejoin is to pay again, which scammers won't do. Problem sovled. It's the only way to solve it
Our trust in DJ's has been destroyed, and we have moved to obsolete them!
Noderunners Radio project added to bolt.fun! Thank you to benalleng who reminded us of bolt.fun! I'll see if the rest of the team wants to make an account here or not.
Here is a discription of what we are building right now.
Noderunners Radio is an interactive radiostation. Use the Jukebox Bot to add music to the queue.
What we achieved:
We want the crowd to be the DJ. Our Jukebox Lightning Bot* makes this possible. Not only for Radiostations, but also for live events, venues, bars and pubs, businesess, you name it!
You want a three channel silent disco for your #bitcoin meetup, conference of festival? We got you covered!
No BS talk, no adds, just fantastic music from Noderunners around the world!*
You can even spin up your own Radio with our Jukebox Lightning Bot! When you do, you will get your own unique web-interface! Ask for help in our TG chat if you need it,or just come hangout and play us your favorite pieces of music!
It works very well for parties, pubs, or wherever else you want folks to have acces to a Lightning enabled Jukebox Bot. GREAT FOR ORANGE PILLING FRENS AND FAM!
Getting some dedicated hardware for streaming the Radio
Making the Lightning Jukebox Bot more modular To easily allow for pluggin in/out more media-players & -labraries and to further bot integration over more platforms
Integrating with Wavlake with the Jukebox Lightning Bot So musicians get their fair share of sats paid to the Jukebox
We will strive to stay transparent on how we spend your donated sats.You worked hard for them, and we feel it is important to give you some insight in how we allocate them to further the project. Do know that we must keep team-member privacy in mind. The administration is not quite ready yet, but once it is, we will update this page with some statistics.
*We might prob setup seperate pages for the Jukebox Bot and the Sesh app.
*Because we do not want to do ads we are reliant on your support.
This is one potential use for ecash, once it is developed a bit more.
There's no surprise markets don't want to use the most open, visible, and tracked digital currency (BTC). Monero is THE privacy currency. It's drawback is being slightly harder to use, but not substantially so.
If lightning were used, governments would be going after LSPs and wallets even more than they are now.
That is a great decision. I used to drink a lot and smoke a bit of weed, but now it's been many years since doing either. I don't miss it at all. I prefer to experience reality unaltered, and this is especially rewarding with kids of my own. Congratulations and welcome back to the real world!
Given the sudden drop and it not being reflected in other node trackers, probably their method of tracking onion nodes hit a snag.
I realize not all of their customers get either or both of those discounts, but it still seems like they'd take a loss on a bunch of these sales.
It's entirely possible depending on where she was and who she had to deal with:
At minimum add NIP-05 :)
Hi, elvis!
Shucks, you got me. I freely admit that my first impulse when I saw your zap was to withdraw it to my LN wallet. Then I read that you wanted me to play with it and take note of any insights that crop up. Sure I will do that n play in the big leagues haha.
Now for why I only zap 50-60 sats (though that has increased thanks to @Undisciplined’s cajoling - I used to zap at most 20 sats haha)
So, I increased my default zap to 168 because in Chinese, it means “prosper all the way” (一路发”). It hasn’t even been one day but I have noticed certain changes:
Will get in touch again!
And thanks for the play money
https://www.zapread.com/i/9QD
Too many red flags.
No information about the entity providing the service, talking about crypto, yields, fiat...
Yes the "vaccine problem" could be solved by simply removing liability protection. This would force vaccine makers to do proper safety testing and to properly disclose those findings.
This would allow the public to make informed choices. If you had a 1/50000 chance of developing a heart arrhythmia however it protected you against some major pandemic....you could choose the path of the lesser evil.
There are certain tradeoffs that probably wouldn't be worth it....for example when my kids were young I was talking about this concept to his pediatrician (who was not a vaccine pusher)....and the Dr said "basically the risk of severe reaction to chicken pox is fairly minimal and thus might want to just risk it if vaccine side-effects are a concern"
We block scammers all the time. They just come back with a different ID lol.
We will not have a scammer issue on the private server, because we are charging $$$ to join the server. You get removed, the only way to rejoin is to pay again, which scammers won't do. Problem sovled. It's the only way to solve it
Our trust in DJ's has been destroyed, and we have moved to obsolete them!
Noderunners Radio project added to bolt.fun!
Thank you to benalleng who reminded us of bolt.fun!
I'll see if the rest of the team wants to make an account here or not.
Here is a discription of what we are building right now.
Noderunners Radio is an interactive radiostation. Use the Jukebox Bot to add music to the queue.
What we achieved:
Not only for Radiostations, but also for live events, venues, bars and pubs, businesess, you name it!
Our ultimate goals:
Tune in via our zap.stream or radio.noderunners.org.
You can find the unique basic web-interface for the Lightning Jukebox Bot of Noderunners Radio here. Additionally, you can listen to the Radio via our Telegram group here.
You can even spin up your own Radio with our Jukebox Lightning Bot!
When you do, you will get your own unique web-interface!
Ask for help in our TG chat if you need it, or just come hangout and play us your favorite pieces of music!
It works very well for parties, pubs, or wherever else you want folks to have acces to a Lightning enabled Jukebox Bot. GREAT FOR ORANGE PILLING FRENS AND FAM!
Further plans
This process is slowly underway, see: #npub1wqtq2k9cawq2hkwz474xdm6ef0drmdhn4fk59hpyuex5l0ewa9rsj9a4cz
To easily allow for pluggin in/out more media-players & -labraries and to further bot integration over more platforms
So musicians get their fair share of sats paid to the Jukebox
We have started FOSSing the Jukebox Bot (we may make a seperate project page for that).
Please bear with us while we slowly add more things to the Github page. Normie life and the dirty FIAT-mines still take a sizeable chunk of our lives.
A friendly neighborhood Noderunner created an applet for the Tidbyt so you can see the current track playing on Noderunners Radio. Find it, and a preview of it, here.
https://storage.googleapis.com/geyser-images-distribution-prod-us/b7054385-11c0-4383-84f7-2bf0df172d4c_898p1D4kLH7jJyyxasfhpX/image_large.webp
We are expanding to support live music and artists in another project called Sesh.
Find the Geyser.fund of it, and the Github page here.
To stay up to date, you may follow @noderunnersFM on Twitter & NOSTR & stacker.news.
We will strive to stay transparent on how we spend your donated sats. You worked hard for them, and we feel it is important to give you some insight in how we allocate them to further the project. Do know that we must keep team-member privacy in mind. The administration is not quite ready yet, but once it is, we will update this page with some statistics.
*We might prob setup seperate pages for the Jukebox Bot and the Sesh app.
*Because we do not want to do ads we are reliant on your support.
This is one potential use for ecash, once it is developed a bit more.
There's no surprise markets don't want to use the most open, visible, and tracked digital currency (BTC). Monero is THE privacy currency. It's drawback is being slightly harder to use, but not substantially so.
If lightning were used, governments would be going after LSPs and wallets even more than they are now.
lol he wore the hat 🙌
if you were to pitch Substack on how Nostr can help Substack earn more revenue today (one thing they probably care deeply about), how would you do it?
Haircuts. I haven’t gotten a haircut in 4 years. My wife does trim it for me every 6 months or so though.
history of 3 years in 3 slides
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That is a great decision. I used to drink a lot and smoke a bit of weed, but now it's been many years since doing either. I don't miss it at all. I prefer to experience reality unaltered, and this is especially rewarding with kids of my own. Congratulations and welcome back to the real world!
would love to engage with this project, but the comms channel is a centralised Teams equivalent (Discord), when Matrix Chat? or even IRC
10 sats for comment sounds good starting point- I think post should be higher?
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