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Wen

It is not just the corruption and greed, it is the exposure of the foolishness, if not outright stupidity of these greedy eejits. (1) obvious to observers (and bookies hate to be fleeced) and (b) the traceability.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Former Tory MP among 15 charged over bets on timing of 2024 UK electionBy Peter Walker
#UkPolitics#ToryStupidity#Betting
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KevinOnEarth

@slevelt
Fully agree.
Everywhere.
#Betting is not even a proper "business" because it is impossible to lose when you set the odds yourself in your own favor. It is Theft, pure & simple.
Same applies to #gambling ads on sports. I turn off the TV (& miss whatever #Advertising follows) & will NEVER give a penny to channels, teams or #brands that push gambling. But it will take millions of us doing that to make any difference.

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Łukasz Langa

It's been a while, huh? The core․py podcast is back with an episode about reference counting! 🎙️

I know y'all are waiting for the GC episode but we need to eat the veggies first. Pablo and I hope it's fun anyway. We bet it is! 🍀

#Python #Podcast #Betting #TotallyLegal

creators.spotify.com/pod/show/

Spotify for CreatorsEpisode 18: Reference Counting by core.pyAfter we talked about memory allocation in Python back in Episode 16, we're ready to complain, uh, explain reference counting. Or at least throw a bunch of reference counting facts at you. Plus a big assortment of recent Python changes. You ready? ## Timestamps (00:00:00) INTRO (00:04:17) PART 0: SPORTS NEWS (00:06:53) PART 1: REFERENCE COUNTING (00:08:28) New segment of 2025 (00:13:54) C++ is asymptotic Python (00:15:37) Is Rust game yet? (00:18:01) Names (00:20:25) Breaking the law (00:23:08) sys.getrefcount() (00:25:21) Pedantic Pablo (00:26:06) sys.gettotalrefcount() (00:31:24) TraceRefs (00:33:28) Advantages of refcounting (00:36:16) Disadvantages of refcounting (00:38:40) Reference cycles (00:40:39) Multithreading (00:41:25) When refcounting goes wrong (00:44:05) Freeing memory in Python doesn't return it to the OS (00:45:42) Leaks and cycles redux (00:50:29) Double free (00:53:05) Avoiding reference counting (00:54:59) Immortal objects (01:00:40) PART 2: WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON (01:02:43) New features (01:04:11) Assorted interesting changes (01:15:23) Performance (01:18:09) Free-threading changes galore (01:27:02) AsyncIO (01:34:25) Windows changes (01:36:45) Security (01:37:20) OUTRO
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Simon Lucy

Occasionally I dream up ways to reform all stock and security markets and categorise them all as forms of betting and licenced accordingly.

One of those ways is prohibiting the use of stockholdings as collateral or representing real wealth unless transferred in specie or in kind.

After all you can't use as stake for a bet the potential value of another bet, except as an accumulator where successful bets finance others.

Unsuccessful bets fail to finance future bets.

#Economics#Betting
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