Topic: The Jet Cash coffee lounge thread. (Read 2397 times)

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

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

Never bet behind.

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)...
 

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.

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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.

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).

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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)...

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It's probably the acidity of coke that's good for that, much like the acidity in your stomach (only about half a pH weaker than stomach acid) so probably quite a bit...

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There are a lot of cases where too much money seems to be a curse. If you've ever looked at case studies of anyone winning the lottery that'll tell you an extreme version of it. Other things are like how wealthy people buy cigarettes and drugs which also do a lot of damage to your mouth and throat (especially if smoked/snorted)... Even alcohol can cause a lot of issues if you can't work out your limits.

I usually get £20-£30 cashback at Christmas time, and I don't have a charge for making US dollar payments. I tend to use it a lot, even fo a single cup of coffee, and it lets me monitor my spending. I make sure that the balance is cleared by the due date, as they charge around 14% if it isn't. In fact, if it isn't cleared by the due date, they just take it out of my debit account, so there are never any arrears. The reason I decided to start using a credit card was the result of finding I had a bad credit rating. This was the result of paying cash for everything, and never needing any credit.

I guess I'm really a bit of a fake, as I had to pay several hundred for a new clutch, and much the same to rebuild the rear braking system, so it is handy to have a few thou for those immediate emergencies.

I had a friend who said that true wealth is having time to spend on yourself. He was quite rich financially, but drank too much, looked ill, and had to multi-task a lot of the time. I lost touch, but I suspect that he is no longer with us.

Ah, in my home town water is easier to come by as our town is built atop of a load of natural springs/water ways and I'm a couple of miles away from Buxton (the town has springs, the water might not use that water but there are certainly a lot of springs)...
You can drink water from reservoirs normally too (they don't filter it from there to tap normally).


Monetary poverty and material poverty are different things. Material poverty is much easier to live with and one you can have a choice over. I see no use for a credit card anymore, they used to offer cashback but now all there is is a promise you'll have to pay interest if money doesn't come out of another account in time...

Actually food is easier to find than potable water if you are not in the towns. You can obtain it in the towns, but that is a different skill.

There are degrees of poverty, and I guess mine is an assumed role. I've got a credit card with several thousand pounds available, and no debt on it. A debit account, savings and Bitcoin also add to my reserves. What I realised was that you don't own things, but things own you if you seek the trappings of wealth. For example, I have 8 garages full of stuff that I need to sell, and I keep putting off starting this as a project. Maybe I should post some items here - does anyone want a collection of stationary engines - you can have the lot for a Bitcoin.

I decided to focus on good health and a better lifestyle, and that is why I became a digital nomad. I can park on the beach, and swim naked in the sea when I wake up. Alternatively, I can park in the woods, and watch a couple of fox cubs at play under the watchful eye of their mother. I can harvest stinging nettles ( the healthiest vegetable in England ), and I even eat the raw young shoots. I sit in McD or KFC and watch fat parents feed their fat kids, and then use their crutch to help them to the disabled parking bay. Sometimes I see them throw away a half full bottle of Coke, and I may pick that up and use it as a lavatory cleaner. Coke is one of the most effective lavatory and coin cleaners, so goodness knows what it does to people's insides.

I'm not sure on the type of pverty you're thinking of.

If you have enough money to keep going (or getting a fixed income) then I guess material poverty might not be a bad thing as you are still able to survive. All you really need for survival is food and water, the latter is free if you can find a good source (the first is harder to come by free but it's still possible).

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An experiment was done a while ago where they gave a homeless guy £100,000. He had no neeed for the money and thus didn't really care where it went so he just started giving it out to other people and spending it (as far as I can remember)... What your fate is is based a lot on you, if you have some sort of shelter, some sort of food source and water then you're pretty much sorted...

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It's better than what I'd have turned the topic to, I was trying to leverage trade on 100x and decided that I could put a small amount in and then keep incrementing it if it went the other way. It started off as a good idea but I managed to keep alternating between hitting the buy and sell button so I was just absorbing the losses rather than adjusting the position to make for a greater profit...

God I wish there was a manual with step-by-step instructions for reaching this kind of zen dimension - although I'd rather endeavor liberty and not depending of materialism than poverty... The fear of losing everything I've worked for - i.e. not the possession of money an sich - and therefore the urge to work and gain more, is a stress factor of giant proportion in my daily life.

edit: for a coffee lounge, this is a very profound and serious conversation topic indeed...