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Computer whisperer, fanciful speculator, husband, dad, effective cynicist (e/cyn). Anti-censorship but can't explain Web3 even though he totally gets it.

Tulsa, OK
Joined October 2009
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6 months
The Coming Attention Wars To differentiate between human-generated content and "perfect" AI, humans might decide to intentionally insert grammatical errors, mistakes, misspellings, a random bush stroke, etc. into their content. This might provide a natural way to show that an
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2 years
@OKWildlifeDept Actually the Oklahoma State Constitution specifically forbids all interns from tweeting in the first year. This was in response to a bone-headed intern tweet in 1889 that joked about "free land to the first one who can get here."
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@fchollet Maybe they just got 100x lazier
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@MarinaMedvin Writing “Italian guy” in for next president
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4 years
Check out our face shield made for dental loupes and lights at ! #dentist #dentistry #hygienist #loupelid #loupes @makers4medicine
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8 months
@paulg @PodSaveAmerica @BarackObama I don't think we need politicians who speak better We need them to act better
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9 months
@natmiletic Hanna threw an exception
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6 months
@ErrataRob Is this button available to consumers? I would like to place one in each of my daughters' rooms. It doesn't have to do anything. In fact, I insist that it doesn't.
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4 years
Dental workers: check out our new Face Shield XL! Fits over most loupes and lights. In stock and made proudly in Tulsa, OK! Ships to almost anywhere in USA in 2-3 days.
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@C_Harwick I'm inflating this balloon slower than last year WHY IS IT STILL GETTING BIGGER
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6 months
@gunsnrosesgirl3 If you have a helium balloon floating in your car on the highway and you slam on your brakes, the balloon will float backwards instead of forwards
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6 months
@SCHIZO_FREQ How do we get girls to stop pissing in our water supply?
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5 months
@ChrisCillizza Just constant lies
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When CNN got rid of me, I realized something: I had done a really bad job of maintaining close friendships
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@VivekGRamaswamy 9 out of 10 ain't bad
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8 months
@Rainmaker1973 This thread is filled with commentors who a) don't understand that lift is related to surface area and b) have never played Kerbal Space Program
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6 months
@zachsilberberg In this game you will normally win 1/3 of the time and the house will win 2/3 of the time But for some reason the house is offering to switch spots with you before the prizes are revealed Take the offer before they realize their mistake
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oh hello 1.7rc1 what's this then
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1 year
One box to rule them all - 3060 GPU for plotting/farming/chiaswarming - 512gb RAM - dual 14 core xeons - 24 drive bays up front driven by 2 port internal LSI - 12 of those are 400gb enterprise SLC SSDs - 20+ external JBODs driven by 2 dual external port LSIs - powered by Unraid
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4 months
@mjuric @Google Start with Settings -> Safari -> Search Engine Make them the minority they want to be
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6 years
@ScottAdamsSays First panel: Dilbert: "Sorry I'm late, I was at the DMV this morning." Dogbert: "I was at the DMV this morning too and I didn't see you." Second panel: "..." Third panel: Dilbert: "I call your bluff. Neither of us was at the DMV this morning."
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2 years
Over 1 PB transferred in 10 minutes. Nothing beats the bandwidth of a minivan loaded with hard drives on a highway.
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2 years
What if you could join your GPU to an AI compute farm so others could use it to generate images and you get paid in a Chia CAT? @Dkackman and I are building it. Mostly @Dkackman . 🤣
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🌱 Josh Painter
2 years
Auctions. Blockchain. Zero CPR. Interested? Get your mind off your bags and help me build it on @chia_project . Still very rough but it's got good bones!
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🌱 Josh Painter
8 months
@mrexits Everybody saying "they don't need tripods" should read more G.K.Chesterton: "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
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@simpsoka YOU HAVE SIXTY SECONDS TO BE DRY
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@OwenJones84 I produced the piece - just a small colour switch to emphasise the need for a green budget. It's in the context of a climate/budget look ahead piece. The whole report is here, if you want to understand more:
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2 years
Hey Chia peeps! Transactions stuck? Offers taking forever to complete? Skip the line with fees! Forgot to add a fee and now you are stuck in a queue? No problem, submit again with a fee this time! Oh, you didn't know you could do that? Keep reading! 👇
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🍃 🍃🍃🍃 🍃🍃🍃 🍃 🍃 🌱 🍃🍃🍃 🌱 🍃🍃🍃 🌱🍃🍃 🌱 🌱 🌱
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9 months
@engineers_feed One time I asked to use the bathroom during an interview and when I got back an hour later everyone was gone 🚩
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@luckytran ma'am, that is weather change, not climate change
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🌱 Josh Painter
2 years
NFT for NFT trades already happening on @dexie_space ! Looks like Dexie already has a great UI ready to go for the new update. Soon! Thanks @CassFairiesClub for heads up @sethjenks @esaung @hoffmang
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1 year
The CAT is out of the bag! A while back, @eFishCent asked @Dkackman and I to imagine how can help creators building on CODE. By using a pool of dedicated GPU workers who are paid in XCH, we have a unique platform that can help next-gen creators!
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Introducing the Chia Open Digital Economy (CODE) framework - a tech infrastructure enabling an open metaverse! CODE is designed to bring better protection, increased interoperability, & broader connectivity across digital economies: 1/4
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2 years
what if you could build stuff on Chia using drag and drop?
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1 year
I say we promote @hoffmang again tomorrow
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1 year
Nice pump for $XCH today 😊
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2 years
what if you could mint an nft just by tweeting an image
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1 year
GM - how about some Chia TCG Emporium updates? ✅ Added CPU/MEM/Script attributes ✅ Added real-time updates from Dexie! ✅ Moved to Airtable Simple link (no need for signup) Full dashboard (requires free signup - see screenshot)
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@XDevelopers How about you get started on making twitter API affordable again first
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1 year
@MrMikeGuy @ScottAdamsSays You’ve chosen to spend your time here on Twitter, policing others’ time and telling them that their use of time is wasteful 😂
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2 years
GOOD MORNING to every blockchain that supports the NFT1 standard
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@Rainmaker1973 why didn't they just send them with the cameraman who got that landing shot
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2 years
Psssssst…..I just followed-back everybody with a 🌱 in their name. Pass it on.
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🌱 Josh Painter
2 years
Consider the following sentence and then try to convince me that text can't be art: "A brain computes a mind and a server computes a cloud, you see? They are analogs, but one is digital." - @0x49fa98
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2 years
@grantosan @ChiaBeast @yakuh1t0 @hoffmang @chia_project @KyleLogiks @dylanmrose @TheChiaPlot As per usual, we are attacking this from completely different angles. 😂 Problem: there aren't enough Chia developers. (My) solution: videos "for dummies" targeted at Joe Developer that use normal words that normal developers understand. Sneak peak at my chicken-scratch so far:
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@Rainmaker1973 That video was reversed At the end you can see birds walking/flying backwards 😂
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That face you make when you realize you sold your 57th ranked Chia Friend for 4xch (thanks whoever you are)
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🌱 Josh Painter
8 months
@Scobleizer @elonmusk Fantastic book, but this isn’t the most memorable bit. The martian’s rational description of laughter has stuck with me since high school. It is the natural human reaction to a wrongness that isn’t too wrong. That’s it.
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2 years
Ok which one of you enabled Offer Files that support zero amounts on maker/taker side via RPC? I will kiss you on the mouth! Now we can write "checks" and send "invoices." Offer Files just got a lot more interesting! @hoffmang @bramcohen @sethjenks @mouthy @cameroncooper
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🌱 Josh Painter
9 months
@engineers_feed I started noticing a weird vibe when climbing stairs Couldn't put my finger on it but something was different Finally figured it out - for most of my life, I always climbed stairs 2 (or 3) at a time At some point around 40, my body decided "nope, we're doing stairs normal now"
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🌱 Josh Painter
2 years
Umm the moon isn’t a planet and you mean Buzz Aldrin. Also just because they didn’t see aliens doesn’t mean that micro-cellular life doesn’t exist. You can’t measure what you can’t see.
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@elonmusk Aliens are not real. There is no such thing as life on another planet, and we’ve known that since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Peterson became to first men to walk on another planet and didn’t see anything.
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6 months
@Acyn Back up a few minutes you'll see that he is talking about aircraft carriers' launching systems: steam (John Deere) vs electric (magnets). Problem with new catapults is the salt water that corrodes magnets. He explains all this, but your dumb ass clipped it out for clicks. 🤣🤡
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9 months
"Secure the Airdrop" on Chia blockchain based on Secure the Bag by @JeremyRubin 1. NFT creator uses "secure the bag" concept to mint and wrap up multiple NFTs in a "bag" singleton coin. 2. Anybody can spend the bag on-chain and retrieve their chosen NFT as long as they pay
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9 months
@nikitabier What if you wake up as a middler but gradually increase throughout the day to a 1%er and then suddenly crash down to cheapest around 3:30pm
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2 years
@xtinacomputes You should try coding as a white cisgendered male. I can’t even do basic security role testing cause my privileges are permanently elevated.
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2 years
psssssst.....want to help me test a thing? Reply to this with your xch address... @go4mebot
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🌱PROTIP🌱 Put your 🌱 at beginning of your name instead of end so it always shows up in Twitter Spaces. I wanna see more 🌱 out there, people!
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🌱 Josh Painter
8 months
@zacbowden My father-in-law worked on the team that created this window. I asked him what it would cost to add dark mode and I will never forget his answer. “We can’t, we don’t know how anymore.”
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Is your offer getting accepted as soon as you post it to @dexie_space ? Did you wake up to find your old offer from last year accepted out of the blue? Don't look now, but you may have just gotten ARBY'D 🧵👇
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1 year
tfw ur offer gets accepted immediately on @dexie
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It would be neat if @dexie_space added a “shopping cart” so I could add offers to a “bag” and then accept them all at once with a single fee - just merge them all for me and one and done 👀
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@BrianRoemmele Long ago someone smart said our goal should be a personal computer in every house Today I say we should be shooting for a data center in every garage #decentralize
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@shanselman You wake up in a small jail cell. The door is open and the guard is laying on the floor unconscious. The lights flicker ominously. You’ve forgotten what your job is. N, S, E, W? > _
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2 years
The Simulation started a long time ago under the ocean, millions of years after all land animals were obliterated by Earth’s ice rings. 🧵
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@engineers_feed People of Earth, the development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably, your planet is scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you…
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🌱 Josh Painter
1 year
One time I interviewed for a frontend web dev position They asked me that dumb interview question "if I asked you to move a mountain, how would you do it?" I told them I'd just call mountain.move() and let the back-end devs figure it out Nobody laughed and I didn't get the job
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🌱 Josh Painter
2 years
LET IT BE KNOWN that I am heretoforthwith claiming World Record for “Number of K40’s On Dining Room Table” If nobody challenges in 24 hours it’s official. I didn’t make the rules.
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2 years
@chiafarmers Chia might not be a good fit for elevators cause ideally it will only go up
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1 year
GM In 3-5 years, you'll be farming Chia on old, cheap 2.5" SSDs! They'll be cheap, and use way less power, but you'll still need a lot of them. How you gonna plug 'em all in as cheaply as possible? I propose reusing old 2.5" SAS
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 $SBX DEPEGGED OFFICIAL STATEMENT👇 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Office of the President of Planet Spaceball Spaceball City, Planet Spaceball The President of Planet Spaceball, the magnificent and all-powerful President Skroob, has announced today a major economic
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@3YearLetterman Nick Hailey has been rising in the polls so he might win as well
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7 months
The Butlerian Jihad and You There's a weird phenomenon going on with AI and LLMs right now that is very odd to live through. Usually, the non-technical "normal joe" sees technology as magic. They know it is not real magic, but it might as well be as they have no internal model
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@Austen Great minds 😂
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6 months
@CeciliaZin @OpenAI What if OpenAI just hires Claudine Gay as President? Wouldn’t that force NYT to drop the case? I bet Harvard would be happy too.
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gm chapps
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4 years
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"This is the best shield ever!! Comfortable, easy to clean!! Love it!!" - Suzy J. #LoupeLid - a lid for your loupes! Up to 4 inches of clearance.
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@lisperati Yes this is highlight code->right-click-> “extract method” in Visual Studio
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2 years
🌱 @chia_project mempool looking very active today! Offer acceptance stuck? 1⃣Cancel offer in wallet 2⃣"Delete Unconfirmed Transactions" (upper right under Actions) for XCH & CATs that were in offer 3⃣Accept offer again but add fee of at least 50,000,000 mojos Why 50m?👇🧵✌️
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2 years
Hey Chia peeps! Transactions stuck? Offers taking forever to complete? Skip the line with fees! Forgot to add a fee and now you are stuck in a queue? No problem, submit again with a fee this time! Oh, you didn't know you could do that? Keep reading! 👇
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me tryna understand other blockchains after learning @chia_project
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mononaut (tx/acc)
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here's what a miner gaming Stacks block construction looks like IRL: four Stacks miners each bid between 300k and 510k sats to mine the next Stacks block, but F2Pool censors those transactions to guarantee their own winning bid of only 400 sats.
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Dexie Incentives Program ~ and the ~ Case of the Auto-Canceling Offer File The @dexie_space Incentive Program is a fantastic way to make your coins work for you. By simply posting offers within 5% of market price, you will earn DBX over time while that offer sits unfilled. It
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1 year
Congrats to @chia_project team on 1.7 release! I will now brutally savage the download page's () OS ordering: 1. Ubuntu ARM is at the top!? Didn't even know they made this. 2. Redhat is number 2?!? Go home download page, you are flat out drunk. 3.
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BUT HOW DOES IT WORK AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN a 🧵
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TibetSwap.xch 🌱
1 year
T-5... 4... 3... 2... 1.. TibetSwap V2 is now live!
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Daddy is making lasagna tonight boys
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1 year
Protip for large $XCH wallets with lots of CATs and high derivation index (20k+) Let's do some good ol' fashioned maintenance! 👇👀👇
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2 years
"If you send me a text in green instead of blue, you got no shot." - @davidgokhshtein on Solano phone 🤣
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🌱 Josh Painter
1 year
Yo dawg I herd u like #chiatcg so I....made a big spreadsheet of over 48,000 active offers on for NFTs ranked T3-6 on @dexie_space 👀 DON'T TRUST ME or my code and verify these on or @MintGarden_io or @spacescan_io yourself!
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🌱 Josh Painter
2 years
@bramcohen @Cambesa @praboda @JohnnyFDK @chia_project Where did this myth come from? Every time it pops up, I run diag on my year-old NVME that has written almost 5PB of data. Works great, still plotting, no issues. It's almost like this myth is mindlessly repeated without any attempt at reproduction. Psychologically fascinating.
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2 years
What if the owner of an NFT could update some of the metadata for that NFT? You can. Today. You could have done it all along in fact. Presenting CHIP-????: Editable Metadata! This is the secret sauce behind the magic of . Soon!
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5 months
You know that dumb people like to pretend that they are smart But what if I told you that smart people like to pretend that they are dumb
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6 months
False
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SwiftOnSecurity
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Hard-won lesson: You do NOT want used datacenter-class hardware at home it is NOT built for you. The RAM was too expensive to expand and it sucked down power. A machine for a less-civilized time.
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oh good it's working again, now I can finish the joke so he goes, "wow! what do you call yourselves?" "THE ARISTOCRATS" ~fin~
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6 months
How to effectively use fees on @chia_project 👇
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🌱 Josh Painter
2 years
Hey Chia peeps! Transactions stuck? Offers taking forever to complete? Skip the line with fees! Forgot to add a fee and now you are stuck in a queue? No problem, submit again with a fee this time! Oh, you didn't know you could do that? Keep reading! 👇
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2 years
@chia_friends #6590 just went for 200 XCH *gulp*
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3 months
CHIP-0032 is dead because the @chia_project is truly censorship resistant, both technically and at the community level. Let us now move on and allow opponents to lose gracefully, devoid of nicknames or additional cuts. This battle is over; we now turn our attention to the war.
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2 years
Eight tokens. Four backgrounds. Plenty for all - or are there? Soon (tm)
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2 years
yo dawg i herd u like low-code flows so i built a custom low-code flow that will build a custom low-code flow so you can low-code flow while you low-code flow
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@vivienalatham @ScottAdamsSays Sounds like we have seventeen useless intelligence agencies then What are they even doing if not stopping Russian interference? Are they DEI hiring too?
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@bramcohen I really enjoy hearing you answer q's live in Spaces and I also enjoyed the podcasts you've put out. Would you be interested in a weekly Space that is more technical and discusses specific topics? Like the good ol' @dylanmrose spaces we'd have after mainnet launch?
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