^^^ LOL.. Westerners are going to find this creepy as hell. Even if the couple is in a serious relationship for many years, they won't be allowed to stay in the same room. In the West (and now increasingly in Asia), it is very common for individuals to stay together without marrying. But doing so in Qatar will result in prison time. This edition of the world cup is going to be a disaster for the football fans. Hundreds of thousands of fans will be visiting and in all probability, thousands (if not tens of thousands) are going to land on the wrong side of the law.
That's just insane. You need to marry to live in the same place with a woman? So I'm guessing there won't be any mixed dorms in Qatar for the world cup... At the end of the day they have always accepted it, they have alcohol sales in International Hotels and bars, etc. The only thing different now is that there's going to be a lot more people seeking these "exceptions" |
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I think that neither Germany nor Argentina will play in the final. Germany did poorly at the last World Cup and European Championships. Argentina last played against Germany in the final in 2014. I think this year's final will be different. I remember when Argentina won the Netherlands in the semi finals in 2014, I think that if it happens again this year, the Netherlands will qualify for the finals.
I think those are too strong words, Argentina and Germany are extremely good countries, and they can easily end up in the final. Both countries have won the tournament more than once, so that alone should be a thing to consider. On the other hand, you never know, former champion Italy didn't even qualify! |
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There are many problems in the 3rd world country - one of the main issues is illiteracy and then the access to internet and there is non availability of smartphones to keep a track of the things. So the physical bitcoin won't be successful anytime sooner.
Access to the Internet is done through smartphones in places like Africa. Many people don't have a computer or laptop, but they do have a smartphone. Any cheap Android phone is capable enough to do anything really. This was a thing in early 2010s, the poor countries basically skipped the PC era, and went straight into smartphones, mostly because they are extremely cheap comparatively (not a flagship of course). Internet access through 3G at least, is almost everywhere |
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There are so many different jobs and ways to make money, I don't think a gambler would be an ideal candidate for a position that deals with money.
A similar idea would be to have an alcoholic running a bottle shop. The temptation would be there all the time. I don't think the person would enjoy it anyway.
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Actually, I don't think any team cares about these matches. Yes, they lost to a team by 0-4. So? This tournament is just basically a few national-friendly matches.
So, I don't think anything is going to take this tournament seriously at all. For any team to have any kind of bad performance here is not going to have any effect on the world cup performance, you know. These are just some friendly matches and the players are treating it like one.
Absolutely right. It's basically a tournament of organized friendlies so it's literally just practice for all the teams. No way they're going to put all their effort in these matches and risk getting an injury and miss out on the real matches. It's interesting that only Europe has this kind of tournament, I think it's because there are so many countries playing there. |
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That's quite impressive for an older generation USB miner setup! Ahhh you also got some sweet Compac Fs! I hope you get a block! |
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LOL.... a pint of beer for $12 sounds so cool.  ~snip~ In Australia a pint at a random bar is basically at that price. And in a few countries in Europe as well, like Norway for example. Everything is getting so expensive! |
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~snip~ - I'm not sure who michelem09 is, but he seems to be a Collaborator on the Apollo UI GitHub, and I got no other reply from jstefanop, so I assume you do need to install this nodeJS version that is 4 years past its expiration date.
Try to use Node version 9 This is a pretty ballsy, very very risky statement: By now it's the only way, you won't be hacked or similar if you install that. There are plenty of CVEs that should work on nodeJS 9. In fact, there is at least one user who might have got hacked; as his miner settings were repeatedly changed after multiple hours of uptime (not to the default username).
Yeah, I also noticed michelem09 in the webui repo. My guess is that jstefanop hired him to create the Apollo Web UI. He created minera, a popular miner dashboard that is now deprecated. |
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~snip~ Basically the animals didn't know anything and they just move on where he like, same like playing dice where you're prefer to bet higher number or low number. Actually you don't need an elephant to see how animal choose the club, you can just place a bit sugar on 2 different place and then look the ant choose which sugar  Paul the Octopus did fantastically well with his predictions in the 2010 World Cup:  The probability to guess all them right would be 1 in 256 (if we consider only 2 options for each, no draw) I mean, of course the Octopus doesn't know anything about football and it's all just random... or is it? |
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Hi everyone.
Don't laugh at me, but I had this 1.6G block erupter that I used to mine testnet blocks back in the years, sitting in the dust for a while now, and I'd like to try some luck
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Now, I know there are basically 0 chances to hit a block, but life can be *very* weird so... why not.
The point is I have a 404 on /users/<myaddress> so my question is: is the small toy hashing something properly at the moment?
TY =)
It is working though, but you need to wait for a bit for it to be recognized in the pool. Your best share is 197, extremely low. Give it some time. Eventually it will get picked up, maybe in a couple of weeks or so. It's not too bad to be honest, that's roughly only 300 times slower than a Compac F, which finds blocks! |
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~snip~ According to the bookies(Bet365). Brazil seems to be the fav to win the world cup and surprisingly, England are 2nd most likely to win the cup. France being 3rd most likely while Spain and Argentina join 4th. Who are your favs? I haven't figured out who my favs are but, I certainly dont believe England have a fair chance to win  . They somehow always find a way to disappoint. Brazil is definitely a strong candidate. Argentina, Germany, and Spain. That would probably be my top 4 pick for this World Cup. You never know what's going to happen. I mean, Italy didn't even qualify for this one, and they're not going to sell beer at the stadium, so who knows what will happen here... |
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Then he must have updated it with Kano's driver because no non-Bitmain driver for the chip existed before that.
Interesting. I had a bit of a look, and found a quote from kano stating what you described before: That other 'w' version removes all the git code ownership information, adds a security risk (extranonce) and they release a windows binary with who knows what in it.
If they can't even use git properly, I'd worry about using any code they added to cgminer ...
If you want to use a version other than mine, for the pre CompacF Gekko miners, you must use VH's version.
He wrote the original Gekko driver.
I pulled all VH's Gekko code to my master cgminer git, updated it and added the CompacF to it.
And then went on to check the github page of VH, and found that the latest commit was done in December 2018: https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer Since the Compac F was released last year or so, there's no way it can be included in that repo. Unless I'm missing something... As far as I know, the only maintained repo containing support for the Compac F is the one from kano: https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer |
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True... for those who don't know or participate, you may think that the most difficult or laborious thing is over, but for sure there is still a lot of hard work to be done and important decisions to be defined.
At this moment, what I have seen most about the world cup are the uniforms that countries are starting to disclose to the world, an official shirt can be worth a fortune.
Absolutely. Specially if it has some history attached to it. Recently the "Hand of God" shirt from Maradona was auctioned for 7.1 Million pounds! That's about 8.7 Million USD or 417 BTC The shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored twice – including the “hand of God” goal – to knock England out of the 1986 World Cup has sold for a record-breaking £7.1m at auction. Sometimes I find it incredible how much money some people have. It makes me think about how each person values things at a different price, and also each person has different amounts of money to spend as well... |
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Only 5 months to go for the World Cup 2022!
The Qatar 2022 World Cup will start in November 21, and will end in December 18.
There are no more qualifications, every group is defined already, now we just wait to see what happens outside of the field. Things like selling beer in the stadiums is being played right now. Let's see how that will end up for Budweiser, who is the sponsor of the event.
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Gambling is not meant for winning. Its meant for the dopamine/adrenaline rush.
Unfortunately a lot of people fall for the big shiny prizes and gamble their lifes savings away in minutes. Others become emotionally compromised and keep betting and betting, determined to win back their losses.
But mathematics, more accurately, statistical mathematics is not on the side of the gamblers. They are on the side of the casinos. Why? Because the games have been designed that way, so that the probability of making money weighs heavier on the casino's side of the scales.
Don't feel bad if you lose, but keep yourself under control.
Absolutely right. If it wasn't designed like that then casinos wouldn't be around any more. The thing is that humans are not great at statistics, so they just make really poor decisions when gambling. Many gamblers play games with horrible odds for them, without even realizing it. Some games are a bit closer to 50/50 chance. Of course it will be a bit better for the casino, but it's better to play those games than other that are like 80/20 for the casino. And yet, heaps of people keep putting their money there. |
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That is what I thought 3 months ago, but the video cards I purchased for $530 are now worth $330. There was a huge price drop last week, but video card prices have not caught up with the crash. Wait 2 months before building a mining rig at the very least
You can't realistically mine Bitcoin with a GPU. You can mine altcoins and sell them for Bitcoin, or you can rent your altcoin hashpower and get paid for Bitcoin. But those things are different, and depend on the price of the altcoins. |
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That is correct - Germans are good. They are strong and surly they have good defence too.
But one thing is for sure - those teams which reaches to final are the best of best. But they lucky one wins that days. The good teams have to be lucky as well.
That's the beauty of football. Even the strongest team can lose to the weakest team. It only takes one mistake, say an own goal, and that's it. In other sports that never happens. For example in Basketball there's no way a weak team can win against a strong one, because even if there's one mistake, the rest of the plays ensure the strong team wins always. |
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I hope the trend of animals predicting the results comes back! Paul the Octopus was spot on, and there was a German elephant as well. Much more fun to see an animal doing these predictions than a random human |
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Okay so I got CGMiner to run at startup on a Pi 4 although I can't seem to actually see it in the terminal it on the pi! Here is what I added this to the /etc/rc.local cd /home/pi/git/vthoang/cgminer
sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u BTCADD.PI1 -p x --gekko-compacf-freq 570 --gekko-start-freq 420 --suggest-diff 128
I see the stats on the pool side but have no idea how to actually view what's running in the usual CGMiner terminal window! ctrl-alt-f1 does show me the terminal window but its not displayed as it would be if I just entered the commands in terminal. Any suggestions? Do you need it to be run as sudo?, it's generally not a good idea. If you want to see the actual output from the console you can call the script with screen, which allows you to detach the process and attach to it from anywhere later on. Easiest thing would be to create a bash script(let's call it start_cgminer.sh) that does the actual call to cgminer(use absolute paths, not just ./cgminer), then call that instead on /etc/rc.local: screen -dm -S miner /home/pi/git/vthoang/cgminer/start_cgminer.sh That will be executed as root, so no need to do sudo. The arguments just mean it starts on the background and names it miner. To attach to that screen, just do: You'll now see the usual output. To exit, just press Ctrl-A, and then Ctrl-D. That is, hold Control, press A. Then release everything. Then hold Control, press D. That will detach the process, and you can come back again as usual. If you want to run the process as another user instead of root, you can do so with this command instead(let's use pi as the user): su - pi -c "screen -dm -S miner /home/pi/git/vthoang/cgminer/start_cgminer.sh" And finally, to check if you have any scripts running in the background, you can simply do: |
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Wild culture in terms of what if I may ask, let not forget the fact that FIFA is a world federating body and they have ethics of practice. If any country goes against their rule those countries are banned from the competition until they are unbanned, so culture does not have a rule in FIFA what FIFA has is a rule that countries must obey in other to take part in the competition.
FIFA is a very powerful organization. They even have pushed to change laws in some of the countries they have hosted the World Cup. For example, in Brazil 2014: After numerous deaths in football stadiums, Brazil passed a law in 2003 outlawing alcohol sales in stadiums. FIFA demanded that Brazil allow alcohol sales at the World Cup because Budweiser, a major World Cup sponsor, was the "Official Beer of the FIFA World Cup", a role it had played since 1986. In response, Brazil passed a law paving the way for alcohol sales in the World Cup, nicknamed the "Budweiser Bill" I'm curious to see if something similar will happen now in Qatar 2022, since Budweiser is again sponsoring the World Cup, and Qatar has said they won't allow selling alcohol inside the stadiums... |
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