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Originally posted by Rufio View PostI would have thought it's just very clever marketing. Surely it's very easy to sell it to other organisations when they can show it being successfully used by two (well at least one anyway) very successful organisations.Low fee Euro/UK money transfer, 1st transfer free through my referral
https://transferwise.com/u/bfa0e
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostJust messing around my friend, sorry. Actually have a high opinion of your thoughts.
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It's more Hitch's domain.
Making little (possibly imaginary) French men cry.
Picking fights with pran jockeys on Twitter. EtcLast edited by Mellor; 25-06-19, 11:08.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostTrivia time:
who was history's first dollar billionaire?
SPOILER
Hearst ?
hat rivers are the following cities on:- Prague - Valastavla (or something like that)
- Moscow - Moscow
- Madrid - Tagus ( City isn't really on a river it drains a few different ones afaik )
- Florence - Arno
- Melbourne? Yarra
Madrid - no.
Billionaire - no."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by mocata View PostThe Platform is only the gateway drug, its their analysis and support that make them the big bucks. Chunky 6 figure fee from one Premiership club to snap up their guy they sent over on retainer.
Surprised if that's the case no matter who the club is.
We have deals pretty much worldwide (some league-wide and some with individual teams) and none really total too much in reality. Even after acquiring Perform, their league-wide deal with the FA isn't as much as I thought it would be.
Rugby clients pay F all for our highest level of Rugby data. They have no money pretty much.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostRaoul might like this obituary of historian Norman Stone. But there's something for everyone.
he became increasingly undisciplined, neglecting his duties, and spending increasing amounts of time playing poker and drinking himself into oblivion in Soho"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by mocata View PostThe Platform is only the gateway drug, its their analysis and support that make them the big bucks. Chunky 6 figure fee from one Premiership club to snap up their guy they sent over on retainer.
I know StatsSports provide live tracking, do Stats also have live tracking or just offline data collection and then analysis?Last edited by Guest; 25-06-19, 12:51.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostReally? Have muted the comments. I'd instead question why someone is announcing on twitter that they are raising their kid in a fairly retarded way and expecting people to only say bravo. We shouldn't be rewarding stupidity.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostReally? Have muted the comments. I'd instead question why someone is announcing on twitter that they are raising their kid in a fairly retarded way and expecting people to only say bravo. We shouldn't be rewarding stupidity.
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...Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 25-06-19, 13:20."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostReally? Have muted the comments. I'd instead question why someone is announcing on twitter that they are raising their kid in a fairly retarded way and expecting people to only say bravo. We shouldn't be rewarding stupidity.
Yeah, probably best to keep them on mute
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Grunching a bit here, because I've had these discussions on how it works for too long, and it's getting old going over the basics and economics of it again and again. I thought I'd share my experience and brag a bit.
I've been on the bitcoin scene for almost a year now. I immediately saw the value in a decentralized p2p currency. I told all my friends to go to the major exchange (who took paypal at the time) to just spend $100 and buy as many coins as you could. You could have bought as many as you wanted for under 7 cents a piece. Although no one laughed at me to my face, only one took me up on my offer, and that was a friend of a friend.
It was either self-imposed or pay-pal imposed, but the most I could do in a day was a $500 transfer. I bought as many as I could, and my ultimate goal was to buy 210,000 coins, or 1% of the total coins ever in existence. Since then I've been in some crappy deals. I spent ~25,000 coins to a developer for a website that never really panned out (about $1500 at the time). It was my fault, not his. Financially, I should have just kept the coins. But I've met good, honest people who really know their stuff, and have gained more than $1500 in friendships and experience (probably not $30,000 though)
I currently have 4x5970's banging away in my basement and the electric bill to show it. Still way profitable. But you know what happens if I'm wrong? - I lose. So what. It's not that big of a deal, I look at it as chasing the flush on the river when you think you have outs.
Right off the bat I saw these advantages:
1) Gambling. The costs associated with transferring money to and from banks is quite large. The major sites pick up this tab now. A way to move money freely and anonymously has advantages.
2) Drugs. There is now a place to buy LSD on the internet with bitcoins. Never did the drug thing, so I'm not exactly sure of the logistics. But I know people love their drugs.
3) Porn. I have never used a credit card to buy porn - because I don't want to give my CC# to shady people, and I don't want my wife to find out. If I see some total hottie behind a webcam, and it's about $1.00 in anonymous, instant bitcoins to see her naked, I bet I'd take her up on that now. No different than going to a strip club and spending $1.00. I think this will be the best reason bitcoins take off.
4) IRS / Divorce / Expatriation issues. Imagine the guy who drains his bank acct and buys bitcoins to avoid splitting up his estate with his wife. The guy who transfers his wealth to bitcoins before the IRS seizes his accounts. Need to leave the country for good? You're not going to leave with $50k in your pocket or 30 oz of gold without the chance of getting caught. With bitcoins, you just encrypt your wallet.dat file and leave it on the internet somewhere and you can leave the country with nothing but the shirt on your back. There are other ways around all this, but another tool in the toolbox doesn't hurt.
My biggest fear: Google thinks this is a great idea and starts a p2p currency themselves called gcoin. It would probably crush bitcoins within hours.
I wound up very shy of my 210,000 target, but currently have a little over 50k and I'm generating 100 or so per week. I have an option to buy several thousand coins at 50 cents or so that expires in a couple months. I won't be doing any more serious buying, I lost my opportunity. I also own some major bitcoin domain names.
At $50 each, this would put bitcoins at a billion dollar industry. Gambling + drugs + porn + shady stuff >>>> $1 billion, so I'm looking for a number much larger than that. I said that from day 1. Coins are $1.50+ right now, but what will they be after they headline on the WSJ or CNBC? For some rich guy/hedge fund to throw $100k or $200k into this idea doesn't seem like much.
I think the internet was a solution in search of a problem. No one was thinking about downloading music, blogging or playing poker with people across the globe 20 years ago. I see bitcoins the same way: Now that there is a way to transfer wealth anonymously, what is it good for?
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostDid see some weird comments before the muting - protesting about the cruelty of a kid walking about 15km over the course of a day. That's just normal walking! - as anyone who tracks their activity with a fitbit will know. Like kids run a km or so around the living room in the morning before breakfast just by way of warming up to the day. Walk to the market and back, that's 4km. Go to the park - that's maybe 3 or 4km between all the activities. So a kid is at up to 10-12km just from regular activity.
And a four year old does not need to be in a buggy. It's a bit odd for even an advanced two year old to be in a buggy. No wonder everyones kids are too fat, if society is praising lack of activity as a brave life choice.
By the way, this was what we all did as kids. Just ran ourselves ragged everyday. Not being carted around in kiddie popemobiles.
But you should definitely tell Johnny Vegas's wife that the kid is fat and lazy. You can't back down now
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Originally posted by Murdrum View PostDo Statsport provide the same service or do they have more?
I know StatsSports provide live tracking, do Stats also have live tracking or just offline data collection and then analysis?
PM me if you wanna know more in depthLast edited by TheJiggaman; 25-06-19, 14:13.
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostThe way you phrased it made it sound like you march the kid from on 15km walks, rather then accumulating it over the whole day.
But you should definitely tell Johnny Vegas's wife that the kid is fat and lazy. You can't back down now
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Originally posted by TheJiggaman View PostAre you asking about STATS the company? ya we genuinely have the best Live Data/Tracking (especially after acquiring Perform)
PM me if you wanna know more in depth
Trying to get a role within a 1hr drive which is limited but thankfully growing.
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Originally posted by Murdrum View PostYeah STATS the company. I had considered applying to them previously hence the interest but Limerick is too far.
Trying to get a role within a 1hr drive which is limited but thankfully growing.
In very-short though. STATSSports would be very, very small-fry in comparison to what we do.
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I see hitch posted on twitter about that CO2 capturing plant in canada.
It cost an absolute fortune and the carbon it is capturing within a year could be sequestered for a fraction of the cost through planting hemp.... I appreciate the technology but is it the best use of resources? They aren't exactly short on space in Canada...Double-decker bus enthusiast
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God those Twitter pile ons are fucking pathetic, fully on Team Hitch there, is jump in but don’t have an account because Twitter is for cunts.
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This Twitter threads people keep posting here are the worst, just write an article, usually a way for people to over dramatise something that isn’t worth talking about like that Cafe cunt from earlier in the week
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostAlthough if I remember correctly ye fuckers profoundly disagreed with swapping boneshaking inaccesible double-decker buses on the grounds that HectorJelly once found a single other double-decker bus being used in the wilds of Peru, so I expect you to also disagree with this fairly self-evident truth.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThank you hj. I'm glad this ability has been finally recognised for the gift to society it is.
Fucked up equation at the start of an Excel sheet leading to some random hungover theory or anything like that?
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Originally posted by PSV58 View PostThis Twitter threads people keep posting here are the worst, just write an article, usually a way for people to over dramatise something that isn’t worth talking about like that Cafe cunt from earlier in the week
You could be le Kris Kristofferson leading a renagade bunch of Twitter users across the interwebsLast edited by Guest; 25-06-19, 17:39.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostHint at the IT Crowd person?
Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThere's a reasonable case that austerity was linked to an Excel error. All the austerity was argued in part based on dodgy excel work.
Also some massive science thing that lasted years had an error in the first equation
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThat tweet was kinda funny in fairness. Missed all that as had blocked notifications from people I wasn't following, so it looked like everything had died down. These things tend to have a shelf-life of 15 minutes in any case.
Had a few of those. The first was some tweet about a guy called The American Sniper who was shot dead on a gun range. I said something a bit snarky but quite innocuous like 'maybe guns aren't all that safe'. Got put on some rightwing website and they started posting stuff like: I'm coming to Dublin to kill you. Imma gonna feed on your babies. Then they started ringing the DCU switchboard asking to get me fired. Think that was maybe in 2012 or so. Everything after that has seemed fairly mild by comparison. You just can't post 50,000 messages or whatever without accidentally annoying a few people and having it blow up.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Postwowsers. Meant to be 38 degrees in Rennes.His rival it seems, had broken his dreams,By stealing the girl of his fancy.Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil,But everyone knew her as Nancy.
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