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Trump promises to give $5000 checks to every adult citizen in the US if GOP wins house and senate.

Only I can make this promise to you. And here is my promise. If the republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate -- both of them -- because of our economic, tremendous economic success...like, in history, we've never had anything like what's happening, but because of our tremendous strenght and success economically: I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for five thousands dollars. crowd cheers. Bessent smiles weakly very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders or like last year when I gave our great members of the military 1776 -- remember?

I haven't listened to him talk lately. This is pretty bad. It's just unreliable fairytales and the lies poets.

You can watch it here, if you like:

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Like the stacker news reward pool

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Do you think this "promise" would move the needle for anyone? I can't imagine anyone believing him, but I'm not necessarily in tune with how most people think.

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I think I know people who don't really care about voting, but might toss a vote that way like a lotto ticket. I also know people who devoutly believe in trump -- but they will already vote that way and don't need to be swayed by money.

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right, but the trump devotees already vote for him, so the needle doesn't move.

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words are wind, I doubt trump feels it's a bad roi as long as he gets a few people.

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64 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 10 Sep
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103 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 10 Sep

ninja edit!

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lol you guys making me feel like i'm the only person who hasn't seen that movie...

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They are downzapping out of malice.

They are too bs and even forming alliance for hoarding more Sats. They are bunch of cowardly crooks nothing more. They downzap others so that others don't get more rewards. Wtf!

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That probably explains why the lit tab feels different these days.

Scammers with deep pockets attracting the assmilkers like flies.

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why not both

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counterevidence to the existence of time travel, I guess

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Someone seems to be autozapping me 10 ccs on every post and comment. Either I have a fan, or someone has a bot trying to early-zap everything in order to get in on the large reward pots.

SN is such a fascinating experiment in economics. It's ridiculous that I'm having trouble publishing a paper on it.

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Lol, you have a Sugar CC

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hahahhahahah

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I get them too. Especially going to be fun when they find out they're ranked low after all these sats spent.

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There could be more than one person, who like myself, has no send wallet attached, is a cheapskate, but occasionally will send 10 CCs just to say they liked the comment. Maybe I change mine to 13. I'm not instant in my zaps though.

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nah this is a bot or someone trying to be cute and get the pot in a sneaky way, except they didn't read the ranking algo. Is fine though, CCs evaporate fast.

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Hmm yeah you just got 10 CCs faster than I could get you 13 from the look of it.

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Pretty sure it's a bot. It happens too fast and too consistently for it to be a human.

But the weird part is that it doesn't seem to zap everything. It feels a bit haphazard in what it chooses to zap. But when it does zap, it's always 10ccs and it always happens pretty soon after I post.

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NGL, the temptation of the rewards pot has got me zapping generously too. Hope I'm not disappointed in my earn!

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The pleasure and value of giving is underestimated by the Libertarian-neoliberal mindset.

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145 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 10 Sep

Might be worth designating someone to zap and then we all zap them at the same time and then we all get a lot of rewards .. or something like that

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did ek not read the algo either?

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738 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 10 Sep

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this is a pretty good one. well done!

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I nominate this post for us to coordinate on: #1554892

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Ancient proverb: it is more fun to always zap generously

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more proof that time travel is real

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If you thought it would be hard to get worse, there's always concurrency. Murphy is a bitch.

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Today's the day!

const TOTAL_UPPER_BOUND_MSATS = 1_000_000_000

// sanity check
if (totalMsatsDecimal.greaterThan(TOTAL_UPPER_BOUND_MSATS)) {
      throw new Error('too many rewards to distribute')
}
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77 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 9 Sep

crap

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Are you gonna raise the TOTAL_UPPER_BOUND_MSATS temporarily?

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sanity check lol

Stacker News has gone insane!

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138 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 9 Sep
// insanity check
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153 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 9 Sep

🤣

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wait... that's what it looks like for someone that is logged in to YT, and I'm seeing just the middle of the SN screen in a mobile portrait video for the entire show? If that's for real then Goog sure as hell knows how to enshittify, lol

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348 sats \ 3 replies \ @Natalia 9 Sep

Today I was a bit annoyed by all the tiny things I needed to solve, but I decided to go out for some fresh air.

Someone got on the bus I was on and asked where the empty seats were, and people guided him. Then, as he was passing me, he asked, "Is it empty here?" Actually, people were guiding him to another seat, since men generally don't sit next to women here, especially with other empty seats available. As he was sitting, he kinda bumped into me because he couldn't see. Later, he apologized because he didn't know I was there.

I was really curious: how did he even navigate? He was typing and listening to his phone for directions, he also called his family. I was really amazed because he had such positive energy, and I don't know how much it takes for him to navigate life without being able to see. I got quite emotional in that moment and wondered why I was even complaining.

He can't see me, he probably doesn't know how much he affected me in that brief moment.

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78 sats \ 2 replies \ @AG 9 Sep

Sound and smell. Other senses get stronger when one is missing. He might have just played dumb with you? He might be curious too ;)

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 9 Sep

with so many cars and people, navigating this sounds like a daily adventure.

He was literally walking with a stick. 👀

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @AG 9 Sep
He was literally walking with a stick. 👀

That's a sign that helps identify blind people 🙃 Sometime I play blind, when I walk, when touching grass... is easier when not moving. But try closing your eye when waling, even if with someone in your side, it kind of a struggle. Take time needed to develop the strengths to compensate the missing sense.

What I want to say, he perhaps smell something different in you and wanted to know, wanted to hear your voice. Or perhaps it was just a coincidence.

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169 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 9 Sep

Sleeping in their bed ❌
Sleeping in the dustpan ✅

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#1566532

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It appears lnmarkets is doing some maintenance.

Closed my channel

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I saw a message about that from Alby. They recently closed their channel with me, shortly after opening it, shortly after closing the one I had opened with them.

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Apple launches foldable iphone!

iPhone Duo

#1566260

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New iPhone 18 pro camera comes with automatic variable appreture.

This is definitely a hug leap!!

#1566260

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🎈🎭🎪🎭🎈

💩📺😵📺💩

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Iphone 18 pro is launched in 4 colours:

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38 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 9 Sep

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Apple Lunch Event: Live on SN :)

#1566260

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I was gone for most of labor day weekend. Seems like I missed some pretty eventful things, including a gray hat hack which basically created rehypothecated BTC? Wow.

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"I remind you that tipping is a custom"...

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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichrome 9 Sep

Good name for a pub.
Have a hidden speakeasy attached to it called The Black Hat

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Jajaja.. Brilliant😅

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is this real?

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@k00b why was the 70/30 split removed for downzaps? #1566537

I feel the split could be similar to boosts, so at least the OP gets a partial refund.
Territory founders should be more responsible for moderation

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102 sats \ 12 replies \ @k00b 9 Sep

We removed it because it would incentivize territory founders to post spam and scams to attract downzaps.

I feel the split should be similar to boosts, so at least the OP gets a partial refund.

OP never got a portion of downzaps so I'm not sure what you mean.

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If we need more downzapping, the next move might be to make a mirror version of the rewards pool that distributes all the downzaps amongst the best downzappers.

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So how else are territory founders* incentivized to downzap if they know someone else gonna do it for them?

* edited

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112 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 9 Sep

They get paid from the boost/zaps/posting fees. If they want to downzap it they can use those funds at 0 cost.

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Ever consider giving territory owners the right to simply remove a post outright?

If cross-posted, I would envision that the territory owner can simply remove the territory tag from a post (while refunding the poster the posting fee). If all territory owners remove the territory tag from a post, the post disappears.

Yes, it gives territory owners the ability to censor within their own territories, but as long as one territory owner doesn't do that, people will always have a place to post on SN.

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Is that not what can happen in moderated territories?

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maybe, I don't know. I haven't explored all the territory tools tbh

Feels like a great idea. Well, why censor? The post will still be accessible from the profile page.

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Who is they?

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I HIT FOUR OF THE TOP-10, I freakin wiiiiiiiiiin!

Fuck the downzappers (...and the boomers!)

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Someone has a hardon for you today lol.

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it's pretty sexy, I must say.

Whether they hate you or love you, at least they're thinking about you!

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You're hitting a record lol

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47 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 9 Sep
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I saw it early this morning... the conspiracy turned into reality.

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@DarthCoin and @justin_shocknet looming large in my mind today:

Misty Breez was relying on Boltz. Boltz shut down, Misty falls back to...Liquid.

I can't help feeling like this could have been predicted.

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I held off migrating a fam member to misty breez, from the old breez. Now I am happy that I have been an unreliable little bitch. Not sure what's up with their funds tho, lol. Imma be that ultimate guarantor I guess.

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308 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 9 Sep

@Darthcoin be like... 😂

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358 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 9 Sep -1000 sats
I can't help feeling like this could have been predicted.

This is why lightning exists in the first place, no centralized points of failure.

When you try to make lightning easy for lazy or stupid people, all you do is recreate the issues lightning itself solved.

124 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 9 Sep

Dealing with normies' world setup is exhausting. I need to call the phone company again tomorrow to switch to a pre-plan. Ugh, I love how I can pay with slient link without dealing with anyone, just pay, done and it works.

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147 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 9 Sep

interesting, many new accounts, but it might be... 🤔

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sharks are coming

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Someone is running a backlink business through SN freebies.

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Hmm.. this new bot hack panic is lately seeing also some poor hand-coded releases. Because they're rushed? So now we have decline in quality from vibeslopping and we have decline in quality from bothackpanicking.

If you introduce an unchecked integer overflow in your bugfix commit that fixes a string parsing logic error, the real thing you were missing was reviewers? Of both the hydrocarbon and the silicon kind?

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A useful gate is to run the new regression test against the unpatched revision first. It should fail for the reported behavior, then pass with the fix. Otherwise it's surprisingly easy to write a test that only confirms the new implementation's assumptions.

For a parser fix, I'd also test the boundaries that the parser feeds into: empty/truncated/extra-length input, max and max+1, signedness, and invalid values that still have a valid checksum. Keep a known-good compatibility vector alongside those rejection cases.

I used that sequence on a small public reference module today: its original tests were green, but the added boundary cases were not. A green test suite is only as reassuring as the behaviors it actually exercises.

A new day, new chances to rack up some ''SATS.''

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112 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 9 Sep
A new day, new chances to see super awesome content that is worth my sats

Fixed it for you.

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Of course, there’s never any shortage of good material to shoot here

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @mkmloom 9 Sep

Good morning everyone, I just know I'm sleepy and I have to go to work

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await boss.work('earn', jobWrapper(earn))

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Day 26 wearing the hat and I still have bullets left

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