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2019-09-10
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seancorfield05:09:59

Watched John Oliver's show today... he was showing some of the footage from parliament... which apparently he has to edit out for UK TV.... I'll be interested to hear how it plays over there 🙂

Ben Hammond08:09:18

assuming you are earning in USD

Ben Hammond08:09:30

you'll be able to buy your own castle on the cheap

Ben Hammond08:09:35

and ancestral estate

Ben Hammond08:09:07

I have already started growing my forelock in preparation

Ben Hammond07:09:41

what did he have to edit out?

seancorfield18:09:38

Apparently it's a legal issue: TV shows broadcast in the UK may not show footage of parliament (except, presumably, the official parliament TV show/channel?).

seancorfield18:09:21

So Oliver's show contains footage of the UK parliament all over the world, except when it is broadcast in the UK, where they substitution in some random video clip...

Ben Hammond07:09:15

> It is revealed that Boris Johnson intentionally lied to the queen, > and consequently is detained indefinitely in the Tower of London > Jo Swinson invited to form government of national unity

picard-facepalm 4
Ben Hammond07:09:21

would be my hope

dominicm07:09:48

But there's more police now. We are all safer. Thanks to Boris.

Ben Hammond07:09:06

oh good. They can arrest him when he breaks the law

yogidevbear08:09:05

Surely you mean they can arrest him for all the laws he's already broken 😉

guy08:09:07

Morning!

thomas09:09:36

and btw... I am really looking forward to ClojureEx as well. To see as many of you as possible.

Ben Hammond09:09:59

is this malevolent, do you think? certainly counts as spam by my definition

Ben Hammond09:09:01

its someone trying to push their crypto currency

flefik09:09:44

it’s not

flefik09:09:45

it’s official

flefik09:09:26

I’d probably just click claim if I were you, XLM might be worth something in the future

Ben Hammond09:09:03

I can't get over the waste of electricity

flefik09:09:33

XLM doesn’t work the same as BTC and ETH

Ben Hammond09:09:30

the Ts&Cs are well written

Ben Hammond09:09:44

ok thanks for the advice @cfeckardt

Ben Hammond09:09:56

(why killer carrot?)

flefik09:09:38

it’s initially inspired by a song by a canadian comedy band called Arrogant Worms - Carrot Juice Is Murder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM My 12 year old self thought it was funny 15 years ago, and then the photo just stuck with me since to use as a profile picture on communities where I wanted to remain anonymous.

flefik09:09:07

I suppose I could just put my real face on here now

Conor10:09:21

I find it incredibly amusing to see cryptocurrency people re-learning all the lessons of the financial markets

flefik10:09:48

what are those?

Conor10:09:16

I can recommend FT Alphaville or Matt Levine's newsletter for Bloomberg if you want to see some 🙂