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Even worse is audiobooks not coming with the e-books It makes highlights extremely limited, and annoying to work with.


I have never seen a wire on any table, ever.


Me neither, and I’ve played Craps in many cities in several countries. I can’t find any google results for [craps table wire] either.


They're definitely on every Atlantic city and las Vegas table I've ever seen. But they blend in and are very subtle. It's just enough to make the dice tumble if they're being slid instead of rolled. Most people never even think of it because the stickman should be telling you to throw the dice to the back wall anyway. Next time you're at a table look in the middle right in front of the boxman.


Here’s a photo of Las Vegas table. Could you mark it up to show where the wire is supposed to be?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/las-vegas-coronavirus-...


Andy800 did a better job replying, but I drew where the wire is on the photo you sent.

https://imgur.com/a/nvRbLsA

In andy800's example you can see it under the felt but I think I have seen them over the felt as well, but either wat it is very subtle and you won't notice it if you're not looking for it. I had played craps for over a decade before I read a book that mentioned it, and since then I have noticed it every time.


That's behind a paywall. In any case the photo needs to be very, very close to see it.

Look closely at this photo at full resolution: https://images.freeimages.com/images/large-previews/2cb/crap...

There is a very subtle North-South bump under the felt, directly in the center, under the words "CRAPS" and "DEALER and PLAYERS" and "Seven". It might be easiest to see at the lowest horizontal line, below the words "Any Craps."

Here's another hi-res photo, you need to already know it's there, but you can just barely make it out if you look very closely right down the center, under the felt: https://i0.wp.com/agrlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC01...


In double deck, or 6? You can join any time at 6 deck.


It's a common defcon joke. It's been "cancelled" for years.


Can you not set your MAC to whatever you want on many platforms?


I think they're implying that MACs are authenticated the same way IP addresses are authenticated with Wireguard (you can say "only 52:54:00:7a:cc:dd can talk over this connection").


Presence detectors work well for this.


Know of any good ones? I as all set to buy the nest protect. But turns out they are stupid and require cloud connectivity for any interoperation all all. No public API, no SDK, and basically useless.

Sad, the nest protect has a microphone, multiple networks, speaker, light, presence detection, alarm, smoke detector, etc.

I'd love to get the same hardware with a sane stack that will interoperate with my home not just today, but in 10 years as well.


I have a motorized sit/stand desk from uplift, an aeron chair, a monitor arm, the Microsoft 4000 ergonomic keyboard, and an anker standing mouse. Before this setup I would run into a lot of RSI problems but this combination has fixed everything.


> Easiest way is probably to get the pink salt from the Himalayas.

It's from Pakistan, but I think your point stands.


Wikipedia says the Himalayas extend into Pakistan, and it's marketed as "Himalayan salt" regardless.


Kind of a pedantic comment from you. The part of Pakistan they get that salt from is in the region of the Himalayas. Himalayas spans multiple countries and is a big region. So that person is not wrong, it is from the Himalayas.


uhh, hey guys. this is weird.


Freemasons.


is a sideways smiley face now some secret mason handshake?


No, just a 90s era #unix'er.


I think the reason that you believe that is because of the "loud" ones who have made their crypto money are almost omnipresent. I missed the boat, but I know of quite a few people who are crypto-rich yet do not bring it up all the time and live the same life they did before.


> I missed the boat

Why do you think you missed the boat? Yes, the 1st boat maybe, but I think there is still time and room for the rest of us who haven't invested. Only we can't expect the 10000% gains in 1 months like the early adopters and risk takers did.

I say that because mainstream brokerages are slowly getting into this space. Goldman Sachs said it will open a Crypto Trading desk this summer. Bloomberg has already added Bitcoin, Etherium and Ripple to its Quotes Terminal.


That's more of a reflection of the opportunities for Goldman and co to make money, rather than a reflection of the opportunity for you, me and GP to make money.

Look at the trading volumes and who is doing the trading; these prices are not the same as stockmarket prices.


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