The Jet Cash coffee lounge thread.

[crwth]

I don't see why you'd want/need a good credit score. A lot of the time it's normally only bad if you pay in cash for everything and don't pay by card (even though its nicer to pay with cash)...

There are a lot of reasons why you would want good credit scores in the bank. One main reason why I want to improve my credit score is that it could allow me to have a better chance of approving the high amount of loans in banks. Why would I want a loan? Probably to start a business that could get me off the ground and to the success I want. I'm not yet there apparently but that's my long-time goal, and with the help of a good credit score, it would make it easier.

Some less critical thing that could maybe act as your goal to increase or improve credit limit are rewards given by the credit card company that you have. It's nice to have little incentives along the way.

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[Jet Cash]

I don't see why you'd want/need a good credit score.

It seems to affect quite a lot of services that you might want to use - car insurance for example. A bad credit score can also bar you from some premium services such as Amazon and mobile phone offers. It may also be essential if you want to rent a car in an emergency.

[jackg]

I don't see why you'd want/need a good credit score.

It seems to affect quite a lot of services that you might want to use - car insurance for example. A bad credit score can also bar you from some premium services such as Amazon and mobile phone offers. It may also be essential if you want to rent a car in an emergency.

Ahhh, I've always seen it as "if we give someone a number then they'll work to make it better and take more loans" maybe that isn't the case at all...

[paxmao]

The bus travel in london is probably the cheapest anywhere in the UK (because it's subsidised by the government)... I've seen busses so full they've rolled back down a hill in order to get a running start before they go up it from the stop (and that company is certainly making tremendous profits).

You are severely miss-informed about Transport for London finances, and that´s a shame because it is all publicly available information.

[Jet Cash]

I'm picking up an old rotavator on Saturday. I'm getting interested in converting old appliances into alternative tools, so I might try to convert it into a lawn mower. At the moment I'm experimenting with using some bits from an old microwave, and using them to weld copper wire. So far, I'm not sure that it is better than soldering, but it might be useful if I wanted to weld an earth onto a stainless steel plate, or something like that.

On a lighter note - I've just added the Bitcoin rap battle to my Bitcoin tunes site.

[Jet Cash]

The opinionated junior manager that I don't like at McDonald's is off work with chicken pox. He has all his vaccinations to weaken his immune system, so of course he is vulnerable to all these new strains of the old infections. It goes to show that you are much better off if you work with nature, rather than trying to fight it.

[jackg]

I dunno some vaccines like the MMR worked to help control strains of the disease, like cow pox did a while ago.

Chicken pox is a fairly normal disease to catch too (especially if he hasn't had it before) it's not like McDonald's isn't going to see its fair share of kids with the illness (although it might go some way to stating the hygiene of the restaurant)...

(the fud from the MMR was brought up by a guy selling a rival vaccine that just did measles and his scientific research was about as good as any TV show - 6-10 "random" (specially selected) people to prove something.

[Jet Cash]

I've been in Somerset for a sew days, and it has changed my Internet availability. I really must put together my digital nomad site to give some tips and reviews. There are lots of free apples available, and they are proper English apples - not the French pap that the EU forced on us. I cooked some "sops in wine" apples yesterday. These are old English pink cider apples, and they are great. It's such a shame that these are only available through private orchards now, but that means they are usually free to locals.

The Wifi in the picnic area cafe is rubbish. I was there for 2 hours, and only managed to do about 10 minutes work. One of the McDonald's has a 90 minute parking restriction, and a £100 fine if you stay longer. The other one is on the edge of the city, and the parking spaces are too small for my van. I'm in a Morrison's cafe, and the Wifi blocks the port to synchronise my node. I'm 5 days behind, so I decided to tether to my mobile. Windows is still being really slow, and I'm going to have to switch back to the Linux SSD.

I'm here because they have Amazon lockers, and I need to buy some tools to work on my van before the winter sets in.  The solar extractor is brilliant, but it was really hard to get a 120mm hole cutter at a sensible price. I ended up buying one from China with free shipping. Now I need to install my wood burner before the winter arrives.

I've decided to restore the vintage power weeder, and I might take it to some vintage meets with some of my other old equipment next year.

[jackg]

It does work. But not as efficiently.

Most online places will have 8-deck games with a penetration of 4 decks. This means that to beat the variance you have to be quite lucky.

The highest true count I've ever gone up to (for only a few rounds) is somewhere around 8 before I got shuffled away. This was over the course of scores of hours, over multiple tables.Gamble for fun and adhere to basic strategy. Count if you want to... but it will detract from your enjoyment and if there's a marginal gain, it's not worth it.

(I believe it's somewhere like $5/hr with a 10K bankroll in online play)

Ah, I've been watching youtube videos recently from a guy that had a film about one of his teams (called the "holy rollers") and it's quite interesting. I have a long break next summer so I ought to practice counting over the year and try to test my skill at some point. He seems to think you should be able to make 2%/hour with a risk of ruin at 2%.

I thought I'd come back to this quite to say I found a blackjack simulator online and it doesn't look like you can beat an 8 deck shoe with 4 card penetration as the simulator says the house edge falls to around 0.28 (from about 0.7%) but isn't completely nullified (but I'm not sure on the accuracy of that simulator but it did have a lot of detailed analysis (and it was just playing with a bet spread of 1-20 so 1-100 or something might yeild better - but it did have ~440k hands played so the randomness was probably accounted for).


The guy I mentioned was from blackjack apprenticeship.com, they do have a free course and he seemed certain you don't have to pay for the course unless you want a consultation and a few extra things thrown in... There's a lot of resources on card counting.

[actmyname]

I thought I'd come back to this quite to say I found a blackjack simulator online and it doesn't look like you can beat an 8 deck shoe with 4 card penetration as the simulator says the house edge falls to around 0.28 (from about 0.7%) but isn't completely nullified (but I'm not sure on the accuracy of that simulator but it did have a lot of detailed analysis (and it was just playing with a bet spread of 1-20 so 1-100 or something might yeild better - but it did have ~440k hands played so the randomness was probably accounted for).

That simulator is probably accurate if you're forced to play a minimum bet (with a maximum bet cap) to stay at the table. However, in many online casinos, you can simply hop in and out, and at some of the places that I've played at, I can just do a "seat reset" by quickly 'standing up' and 'sitting down'. This saves my seat for the ~2 or 3 rounds of idle time.

He seems to think you should be able to make 2%/hour with a risk of ruin at 2%.

Buy Million Dollar Blackjack by Ken Uston.

If the house edge is at 2% on average and there's 100 hands/hr, then you will be able to hold a RoR @ 2% with somewhere around 200 units.

[jackg]

However, in many online casinos, you can simply hop in and out, and at some of the places that I've played at, I can just do a "seat reset" by quickly 'standing up' and 'sitting down'. This saves my seat for the ~2 or 3 rounds of idle time.

Yeah a lot of the ones i've seen like you to watch when the table is full with the added function that you can bet on the player you think is most likely to win so that probably works well as long as you can get in quickly (for card counting, the house edge from the simulato will factor in the time you're sat at the table and the true count never turns positive or it is only positive for one or two hands and you're sat there for the rest of the round with the odds against you)...
 

[actmyname]

Yeah a lot of the ones i've seen like you to watch when the table is full with the added function that you can bet on the player you think is most likely to win so that probably works well

Never bet behind.

[jackg]

Yeah a lot of the ones i've seen like you to watch when the table is full with the added function that you can bet on the player you think is most likely to win so that probably works well

Never bet behind.

No I meant it works well for trying to count if they allow you to watch the tables.

[Jet Cash]

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Come on Bitcoin - get to the moon, so that I can buy one.