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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?

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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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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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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And also how you define brain. Many brain scientists would say the eyes are part of the (human) brain.

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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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It dies, probably.

Not exactly!

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I guarantee that it dies.

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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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making it the biggest simp in the animal kingdom IMO

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my middle name

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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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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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is arbitrage really the right word for that?

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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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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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is that really not common knowledge? isn't that the theory behind FIRE?

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I believe they try to live off dividends mostly.

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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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That’s of course meant to be “(almost all) 2-of-3 P2SH inputs”

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The blob of toothpaste that sits on your toothbrush is called a nurdle

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Your birthday.

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this famous scientist also write a treatise on monetary economics

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You can't eat two slices of white bread in two minutes without water

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Of course you can.

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I... think...?

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I'll bet 1k sats that you can't

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dammit

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Props for actually trying 😂

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wait ... did you already try and lose? lol

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I barely made it past slice one.

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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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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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