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Stack sats and stay humble!

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Is anyone into mtg? I just saw the 2023 lord of the rings set. The acid poster cards look nice!

Announcing a new fortnightly recurring post, to brainstorm ideas and bring projects forward. Similar to the Stacker Saloon, it will stay pinned in the ~Design territory hot section for two weeks, recursively, giving us time to discuss and provide feedback.

Whatever you are thinking about... A new app? Book? Review your apartment furniture setup following feng shui? Upgrading your 4x4 suspensions? 3D print something for your miner? Redesign your garden yard? What else?

Share it in the pinned post What creative ideas have you been rambling on?

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Day 491 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 583 sats on 28Apr2025! Running total: 337,989 sats!

Happiness Journal 29/4/25

Normally I would take an hour to prepare the slides whenever I need to present something in front of the school. But when my co-worker was sick and had to pass me his slides, I threw caution to the wind and set aside 20 mins to touch up his slides this morning. But since his presentation topic was on autism, my concentrated effort enabled me to input a Survivor video about a person with autism facing an episode, authentic drawings from my student with autism, a Chinese saying 天生我材必有用, among others. I even got to serenade a bemused crowd with the chorus of Colours of the Wind.

So thankful that I didn’t wake up 30 mins earlier than usual to customise the slides.

IPv4 addresses have exhausted and AWS has started charging for them. IPv6 adoption is only 50%

Etymology of "Scam" Origin and First Usage

The word scam first appeared in the United States in the early 1960s as slang, particularly in carnival or "carny" circles, meaning "trick, ruse, swindle, cheat"-both as a noun and a verb.

Its exact origin is unknown, and major dictionaries like the Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary list its etymology as obscure.

Possible Connections and Theories

British Slang "Scamp": Some sources suggest scam may be related to the 19th-century British slang scamp, meaning "cheater" or "swindler." The word scamp itself dates back to the late 18th century, originally referring to a "highway robber" and later to a "rascal" or "mean villain".

Irish "Cam": Another theory links scam to the Irish word cam, meaning "crooked" or "deceitful." This connection is supported by some linguists and is cited as a possible influence, especially considering the Irish-American criminal element in the US.

Danish "Skam": There is also a possibility that scam is related to the Danish word skam, meaning "shame," which would make it a doublet of the English words "shame" and "sham".

Other Folk Etymologies: Additional, less substantiated theories include links to the French escamoter ("to make disappear, to cheat"), the Italian scambiare ("to swap"), and even associations with words like "skim" or "scheme," though there is no strong evidence for these.

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