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There is a bet on Predyx about SN reaching 1.4M items in 2025 or not:
@denlillaapan is creating regular posts about how bad this bet is going for me:
This is the latest chart:
I agree, it doesn't look good. But It's So Early, right?!
But it won't be so early forever. Therefore, I have decided that I can't sit back anymore and pretend like I don't feel like this:
But on the other hand, I haven't even started to do something about it. But today we will reclaim our homeworld like in this opening cinematic of Legacy of the Void:
Let's make @denlillaapan cry and the next chart look like this!

But @ek, you have just posted a bunch of memes and haven't explained at all what the bounty is about???
You are right! I got carried away. But the title already explains most of it:
  • whoever has the most comments in this post wins
  • deadline is on Monday, April 28, 0:00 UTC (timezone converter)
But wait! This isn't a winner takes all:
🥇 1st place gets 25k sats 🥈 2nd place gets 12.5k sats 🥉 3rd place gets 7.5k sats 4th place gets 5k sats 5th place gets 2.5k sats
everyone above 100 comments gets 1k sats
btw, we're also engaged since today, see #948336.
25,000 sats bounty
ADDENDUM
  • Freebie comments don't count
  • New accounts that look like bots that have been created to only win this bounty also don't count so save your sats
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What about bot posts by real users 👀
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek OP 19 Apr
If you use your API key and your comments are marked as bot, it won't count
Challenge accepted
I’m not here to fuck spiders
Current leaderboard:
namereplies
@Aardvark382
@grayruby247
@OT232
@denlillaapan188
@realBitcoinDog184
@Coinsreporter172
@Roll106
@Undisciplined101
@NovaRift94
ek68
WeAreAllSatoshi47
j7hB7541
cryotosensei36
StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears13
unschooled10
mega_dreamer8
SimpleStacker8
jakoyoh6296
flat246
jasonb6
BlokchainB4
Dkryptoenth4
k00b2
DarthCoin2
Turdinthepunchbowl2
Lazy_AMA2
BitcoinIsTheFuture2
supratic2
nitter2
dingding5411
longlifelearner201
oliverweiss1
Nzowashua1
030e0dca831
birdeye211
Cappy_SC1
Car1
Scoresby1
MANI1
I will only mention the ones who are above me in the leaderboard from now on because I think only they are actually trying to win and thus interested in the leaderboard.
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Also, curious why you chose to post the verification repo on GitHub and not your self hosted git server?
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200 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 18h
Haha, good question! I indeed wanted to do this first. But I was too lazy to go and get my security key that I need for MFA on git.ekzy.is when I was already logged into Github.
100 sats \ 50 replies \ @Aardvark 23h
Let the games continue.
I cracked the screen if my phone yesterday. I got it repaired for 7k Sats at a repair shop.
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11 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 2h
Wow that's a great deal. My wife got quoted $120 to fix the screen on her old phone. She didn't bother. Just waited until the contract was up and got a new phone.
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Maybe the service cost is way too much there?
How many repair shops do you see around you?
We have at least a 1000 mobile repair shops all around us. They all are doing great because 200k people in the town and at least 800k living in villages around the town I liv in.
The numbers are approximate. We didn't have census after 2011.
I’m sure you will make it back within a week lol
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@ek your well intentioned effort to drive engagement on SN has gotten out of control. My notifications have become completely inundated by utter nonsense one word, one character comments. It is all spam now. This is not improving the SN experience, it is ruining it.
I applaud your efforts in running this contest. I think next time if we do something similar the parameters for what will be accepted as a legitimate comment should be stricter.
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Can you mute the thread? Does that clean up your notifications?
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Oh I guess you can’t mute posts. But you can unsubscribe from threads
It's true. I've been posting some longer comments but the replies were all spammy.
He can change the parameters for this one as well. Just need to set that unworthy one word comments will disqualify the participant.
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Or may be some penalty like when someone spams the comments for the first time, he'll get a minus, for the second time a bigger minus and for the third time all his previous comments become void.
20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cowboy 1h
Came out of the grave, to comment this!
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Watching from beyond the grave. Spooky.
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@mega_dreamer totally happy with all this Predyx bet activity (#944412)
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Yes very happy, thanks for spreading the word.
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We are at your service, siiiir
I'm not positive how predyx works, but if I'm looking correctly, it's cheaper to bet on "no" right now?
This is a rigged game.
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Mhh, good point, but let's see.
Our API is not that easy to understand and they still need to pay for each comment. If it's a really naive bot, it's going to run into spam fees and/or comment way more than needed.
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100 comments for 1 sat each guarantees 900 sats profit
Rigged games are the most fun games there are.
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If they are rigged in your favour.
Oh. My. Gosh
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@grayruby are we doing NBA game chats here to add up comments?
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200 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 14h
We don't have a discussion thread going so might as well. I didn't see the first game. I have been watching the Clippers vs Nuggets though.
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I caught most of the first. I really felt like NYK were going to complete the comeback again.
Seems the pistons totally changed their strategy for Cunningham compared to game 1. He had a ton of points and few assists
Can we also do bitcoin markets chat here?
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Of course we'll do that in the morning. I'll open a thread.
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What a terrible showing
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@coinsreporter is trying to move up the board. You guys can battle it out for 2nd.
I was thinking the script would just fetch all comments on the post and reduce to calculate the leaderboard, instead of having to specify a nym manually
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122 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek OP 20 Apr
I wanted to do that, but I realized the API makes this hard because of all the nested replies. I would have to assume some upper limit of how deeply nested replies are and then it might kill the server unnecessarily increase server load if everybody runs that script all the time.
So I decided to just use this simple SQL query for the leaderboard:
SELECT users.name, count("Item".id) AS nreplies
FROM "Item"
JOIN users ON users.id = "Item"."userId"
WHERE "rootId" = 948515 AND freebie = 'f'
GROUP BY users.name
ORDER BY nreplies DESC;
and give everyone a way to verify their own number by fetching all their own comments from last week (the items you can see in someone's profile) and then only counting the replies to this post.
I think I also wagered in favor of SN breaking 1.4M items in 2025
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Weak! I wagered on Stacker News breaking 1.5M.
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We will get there by next week.
I was originally on YES but moved over to NO after seeing @denlillaapan's doom posting.
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leeeeesgooooe, we die together
Damn! @Aardvark @grayruby @Undisciplined and @denlillaapan are talking chirping like parrots love birds.
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Shameless self-promotion: #950585
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I can’t believe you liked my trades. I worked hard on those.
10 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 20 Apr
This
I need memes
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THE SCOOP!
@Undisciplined is piling in...
I almost became the biggest holder of No contracts... but alas, no.
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40 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 20 Apr
Predyx is loving this
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Good for them. It’s a great bitcoin integrated project.
He never believed in us.
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uh-hu... he's a sneaky lil expert gambler. No faith, only stats
How you gonna count comments for each user under this post?
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I wanted to mention that everybody should reply exclusively to their own replies so SN will count them for me (and if somebody else replies in their thread, it counts as a reply for them), but I will probably just use the API or read the database.
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I want to reply to everything.
@ek Truly grateful for the epic comment tournament and giveaway you put together — it brought a ton of visibility to Predyx and made the whole experience so fun and engaging. Huge respect and much love for making it happen! 🙏💛
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You deserve it....you deserve it....
Pleasure is all ours
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HAHAHAHA what a cheap(!) way to turn the tides of an honest bet. Ah, man. Resorting not just to shit posting, but bribing the stackers to shitpost on your behalf.
well played, sir; weeeell played.
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I warned you that @ek is fully capable of determining the outcome of that event.
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I know, I know. Just never thought he actually would/there would come much from it
7 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 19 Apr
I at least don't feel good about it haha. I have lost the battle but I haven't lost the war so far!
And we need to keep the bet interesting!
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True. It got boring for me to report a steady run towards inevitable victory
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56 sats \ 7 replies \ @OT 20 Apr
I think @siggy47 is showing some wisdom here.
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Typical
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10 sats \ 5 replies \ @OT 21 Apr
Or he's got too many sats. Maybe if the prize were 100k he might be enticed
Is there anyone who can catch @Aardvark?
I'm not good at running.
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I think Aardvarks sleep, someone will catch him then.
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Good idea
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Someone will catch me.
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Yeah, but please go to sleep now!
Holy shit, this is going to be wild.
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Yeah, buckle up buttercup. We're taken for a riiiiiide
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So... how's the weather? It's pretty nice here. Like mid 50s and breezy.
More of Sensei’s comments is a great thingy
I cracked my dearest phone's screen while watching Paul Hayman attacking on the balls of both Punk and Roman Reigns in the WrestleMania! What a disaster, Rollins won!
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Should have been the night 2 main event, not the night 1 closer.
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Cena still holds the same old charm among audience. You can hear they were louder while chanting "let's go Cena, Cena sucks".
However I agree the first night main event was much much better. Watching Heyman sitting in the corner with that nasty smile was as classy as it can get.
Cena + Travis Scott + Rhodes makes everyone happy including kids. WWE gives a lot of thinking about how to charm broader audience while scripting these big occassions.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 21h
Haha. I can't believe Paul Heyman is still in wrestling.
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He's now hailed as the wise man. He now is in a real mess with both Punk and Roman going after him.
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Should I have pizza for dinner or something healthy? I had a salad with roasted chicken last night.
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I just ate BBQ chicken pizza. Was really good.
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Tasty. This is 4 meat. I am not sure what the 4th meat is. Looks like pepperoni, ham and beef to me but maybe some of the ham is bacon.
The real question is, pineapple toppings yay or nay
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I stand by pineapple as a valid pizza topping. And almost anything else -- trying new pizza combinations is a true joy.
How did you say It’s so Early! and mention @Car podcast and not mine?! You TROLLING
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Roll 20 Apr
also
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24 sats \ 4 replies \ @Car 20 Apr
haven’t seen @ek in two days and I see this post like…
my god, that comment count is making me nervous
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I'm scared too!
I already have to pay out at least 52.5k sats for the top 5.
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plus the value at risk in the bet itself... oooh lord, what have we gotten ourselves into?!
40 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 18h
I'm too old and grumpy for this.
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By the time this is done, you'll be older and possibly grumpier.
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Working on being less grumpy but it's not easy.
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Fun is fun!!
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Wow. I am sure that machine takes quite the spread. It's like those coinstar machines we used to have in Canada that would take all your loose change and give you cash for it but it took an 11% haircut.
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11% is robbery. There's so many ways to just waste money.
Pretty cool thing, actually
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100 sats \ 43 replies \ @Roll 19 Apr
What a challenge...100 posts in 8 days.. so 10 per day at least let s see how far i go
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21 sats \ 10 replies \ @Roll 19 Apr
so i ve to talk to myself to make it counts quiet weird but why not ..ahaahha
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the things we do for love sats
Comments and zaps both are transferred to this post for now. Amazing times for SN.
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One post to rule them all!
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It was looking good yesterday. Today, you can see it's just a transfer of engagement.
whoever has the most comments in this post wins
It could be: **whoever has the most comments in this post on SN wins.
So it’s agreed. I’m doing this correctly right @grayruby @Undisciplined @Aardvark @denlillaapan @cryotosensei @Roll you like pain and punishment?
Hey @mega_dreamer, there's something off in the NBA market. The orderbook for Memphis Grizzles says that I have 10k yes share on them but when I try to sell them they don't reflect. They aren't also there under the share holder.
CC: @grayruby: you also have 5k shares there?
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Maybe the payout is below a minimum threshold?
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I don't think so. I think there's some bug causing it. Because I can't find my buy in for Grizzles in the notifications.
Yes, something is definitely not right. We'll look into it. Thanks for reporting it. The shareholders tab should show your and @grayruby's share.
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Hey @mega_dreamer, this chart hs decided to choose it's on course!!
#Bitcoinmarket
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which market is that?
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Haha good find.
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How do you explain Investing fiat in reality? #951707
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Wait until you see it in real terms.
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@BlokchainB are you watching the Knicks game?
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Nah am I missing anything? 👀
knicks game ? it s a waht ?
Is that thing @ken started still going? That’s gotta pad your stats a bit. I keep forgetting about it, but still have high hopes I’ll win it in the end.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 20 Apr
How's home mining going?
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Good! How about you? Did you get that s9?
51 sats \ 9 replies \ @ek OP 19 Apr
Yes, #661571 is still going
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…and now I’m back in the running over there!
So just so I understand your bounty properly, does your comment on my comment apply towards my total?
New York Stock Exchange closes after indexes slide 3% #952017
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unbelievable
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 19h
Doesn't seem that unbelievable.... it happened
I was waiting for someone to mention how valuable making a lot of comments could be in the context of the bet...
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Well, not really. I'll do some numbers in the morning, but ek has to keep up this charade (and more!) not for a day or a week like now, but for 260 goddamn days.
Phat chance
Is this arbitrage?
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Nah
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It shows you're getting in tbe groove.
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Strategy Acquires 6,556 BTC and Now Holds 538,200 BTC #951204
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Insane
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I'm curious how Stacker Salon comments will go down (or not) while this post is happening.
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This is new Saloon for me
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I'ver never dabbled in saloon, what's it about?
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Are ya winning?
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always
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All barks no bites..
Haha. Winning but dying.
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Trust your thumb and your art of typing, and you'll win!
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Is this also a secret stress test for SN? I know there's no concern about pages loading with too many nests (since nested comments get thrown to another page), but wasn't sure if there was a thread limit of any sort, or how SN's backend database just handles a post with a ton of comments.
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I like this line of thinking
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That's how conspiracy theories are made..
Nice nice nice.
A little coping but ok
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20 sats \ 9 replies \ @OT 21 Apr
LFG
I got this!
20 sats \ 4 replies \ @OT 20 Apr
@ek will regrek
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 20 Apr
Who would zap this?
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 21 Apr
And this...
@ek are you paying out these 100 reply 1k prizes along the way?
30 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 21 Apr
Someone is going to write a script that will post a reply on every comment.
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Wouldn’t that fall under the bot category that is prohibited?
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 21 Apr
I guess it would get scrutiny and probably fail.
Unless you can make it look real like random amounts of reply times with sleeping hours etc
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I really hope that doesn't happen. It would be nice to have something fun happen thst doesn't get ruined for once.
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 20 Apr
If you can post the most does it show determination or someone lack of a life?
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Both
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 20 Apr
Opportunity cost
10 sats \ 12 replies \ @OT 21 Apr
I feel like I'm sneaking up the leader board
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I fear I have fallen behind. I was hoping to be in second in the next update but I am not so sure.
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I too. I'm afraid I'm Outta top 5.
I see
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Let's load up on some No contracts. THIS AIN'T SCARING ANYONE!
From the time you guys started talking, Bear Stearns stock has fallen more than 38 percent. Would you buy more now? Bruce Miller: [unsure] Sure. Yeah. I'd buy more. Why not? Mark Baum: BOOM.
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I considered it, but decided against it.
badaboom :(
I’m so impressed by Yappari Steak that I want to be conferred as its Ambassador, like how I got myself to be a Fukuoka Ambassador. It ticks all the boxes on my diner’s checklist, which is frustratingly complicated, because I have a native Japanese wife and two young kids whose eating preferences mix like oil and water. The highlights: 💙 Decadently sizzling steak 💙 Free flow of rice, soup AND salad (if you order the set) 💙 Various sauces for you to vary the flavouring you delight your tastebuds with 💙 Plate of myriad fries to excite fussy kids 💙 Two children’s meals (karaage OR hamburg) if your kids don’t live on potatoes 💙 Orion draft beer to take the edge off a hard day’s worth of parenting 💙 💙 Approachable staff (at least those from the Northpoint outlet) 💙 Reasonable prices (and you earn Fraser points!) 💙 Soothing songs by Okinawan artistes to teleport you from the stresses of ultra-packed Singapore living
So happy that I drank two glasses of Orion beer. My kids devoured their Yakult - glad that there’s something for everyone!
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Why does every single food post you make look so delicious!
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What's delicious? I don't see any ants for you in it.
If you come to India some say, don't miss to visit Kashmir, the heaven on the Earth.
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That is beautiful. Have you been?
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