What do you know that most people don't know?
1588 sats \ 36 comments \ @ek 25 Jul 2023 meta
When I was traveling in Australia, I met a friend. During our road trips we played a game where we would ask each other questions which we think they don't know but we know.
I learned some stuff like why lights are blue in public bathrooms and ... other stuff that I forgot, lol
I think it was a great game. So... what would your questions be?
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131 sats \ 8 replies \ @orthwyrm 25 Jul 2023
I like weird animals so I'd ask questions on that.
Can you name a bird that produces milk?
How many hearts does an octopus have?
Can you name an animal that has eyes but no brain?
What is the fate of a male angler fish after mating with a female?
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @endothermicdev 26 Jul 2023
Can you name an animal that has eyes but no brain?
Scallops have eyes, but I don't think any bivalves have actual brains.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @orthwyrm 26 Jul 2023
I was actually thinking of the box jellyfish when asking that question! But you're right, scallops and some other shellfish do too I think (depending on how you define "eye").
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 27 Jul 2023
And also how you define brain. Many brain scientists would say the eyes are part of the (human) brain.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek OP 25 Jul 2023
How many hearts does an octopus have?
0?
What is the fate of a male angler fish after mating with a female?
It dies, probably. But no idea how
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @orthwyrm 25 Jul 2023
It dies, probably.
Not exactly!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 27 Jul 2023
I guarantee that it dies.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @endothermicdev 26 Jul 2023
It gradually fuses with the female and I think it's brain eventually dissolves until it's basically just a pair of genitals left - whoa!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 26 Jul 2023
making it the biggest simp in the animal kingdom IMO
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 25 Jul 2023
https://www.educatedinlaw.org/
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @benthecarman 25 Jul 2023
my middle name
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 25 Jul 2023
haha, that's good. however, if we go into this direction, we could also just say "me".
most people don't know me but i would say i know myself to some degree.
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42 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 25 Jul 2023
In a fiat world if you own a large enough basket of assets that increases in value in excess of your interest cost of borrowing against it you don't really ever need to work or do anything productive you can live off the arbitrage between the two.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @zodthebarbarian 25 Jul 2023
is arbitrage really the right word for that?
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 26 Jul 2023
Fine exploit the difference between. Arbitrage connotation has expanded more broadly to reflect meaning exploit the difference between but granted this is not the true meaning of arbitrage.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zodthebarbarian 26 Jul 2023
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @mudbloodvonfrei 25 Jul 2023
This is true for a hyperbitcoinized world as well, although the interest rate will likely be higher so you'd have to be quite good at it to pull it off.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 25 Jul 2023
is that really not common knowledge? isn't that the theory behind FIRE?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 26 Jul 2023
I believe they try to live off dividends mostly.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Murch 26 Jul 2023
I just came up with some good new ones this week (okay, one is old):
  • How many distinct valid values can the sighash flag be set to?
  • Why do OP_CLTV and OP_CSV leave the input value on the stack?
  • Why are 2-of-3 (almost all) P2SH inputs 293, 294, or 297 bytes, but never 295 or 296 bytes?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Murch 27 Jul 2023
That’s of course meant to be “(almost all) 2-of-3 P2SH inputs”
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @OC 26 Jul 2023
The blob of toothpaste that sits on your toothbrush is called a nurdle
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 25 Jul 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @proeu 25 Jul 2023
Your birthday.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 25 Jul 2023
this famous scientist also write a treatise on monetary economics
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0 sats \ 10 replies \ @ek OP 25 Jul 2023
You can't eat two slices of white bread in two minutes without water
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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @orthwyrm 25 Jul 2023
Of course you can.
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I... think...?
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1000 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek OP 25 Jul 2023
I'll bet 1k sats that you can't
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100 sats \ 7 replies \ @orthwyrm 25 Jul 2023
dammit
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60 sats \ 0 replies \ @Majjin 25 Jul 2023
Props for actually trying 😂
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek OP 25 Jul 2023
wait ... did you already try and lose? lol
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522 sats \ 4 replies \ @orthwyrm 25 Jul 2023
I barely made it past slice one.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek OP 25 Jul 2023
lol I originally wrote "you can't eat one slice of [white] bread in one minute without water".
But then I got scared and wrote "two slices in two minutes" haha
I did this as a child multiple times in a row and I lost every time
It was like magic to me
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @orthwyrm 25 Jul 2023
I think maybe it's actually possible if you approach it more strategically?
If I ever did it again (pffffft) I'd take the slice and roll it into as small a ball as possible. That way it has less surface area to absorb moisture from the throat.
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