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Sometimes, [GitHub] posts a [blog post in which they move away from] some terrible [way of doing things] I've never heard before, and it's a weird indirect way to learn how awful their other [design choices] must be.

https://xkcd.com/2071/

good idea, will add it this week. probably it will be part of the manage page, where after you enter one or more keys you can create a QR code that links to a manage page with the key(s) prefilled

A few people have ghosted me after establishing contact. I think some people think it's not worth the coordination effort or didn't expect it to be real in the first place.

I don't want to give too many details, but I will say if you graph prices over time it looks a lot like a market price. Maybe I should add a price history page to demonstrate that it's not noise...

Yeah, this is pretty much the loophole. They're never actually referred to as futures, but as "private, transferable contracts for the future physical delivery of yellow onions".

Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing. But I do actually deliver the onions. Prices vary.

See FBT's comment below, it's about matching or being on both sides of the trade.

Go for it, https://a11ce.com/#contact if you want to coordinate on any sort of derivatives

They are per (normal (sometimes organic) yellow) onion. Prices vary.

(It's primarily a novelty/art thing. But I do actually deliver the onions.)

Exactly right. You're able to privately resell contract keys (and the buyer can then re-issue a new key with their delivery info, voiding the old one), but onionfutures.com doesn't facilitate it.

Hi! I'm the proprietor of onionfutures.com. I'm actually not a member of UChicago for Our Futures and came up with the idea independently, but we've since connected and they handle our Chicago deliveries.

Sure! In 1955, two traders very aggressively cornered then shorted the onion futures market, bankrupting a bunch of onion farmers. This led to the passing of the Onion Futures Act[1], banning the sale of onion futures. This has become something of a financial meme.

OnionFutures.com sells 'private, transferable contracts for the future physical delivery of onions'. This, by my reading of the Onion Futures Act, is legal! So the site is a joke about the OFA (hence the first FAQ question being 'Is this legal?') but also you can actually buy a contract for the future delivery of an onion (and receive a UUID that you can privately resell).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

See also: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html

This loses the "feature" of being able to write builtins in different languages/operating systems/whatever. Either way, I think a serious version of this would use threads. Concurrency is the real potential benefit imo.

I was getting warnings without that line and don't know how else to fix it (this is my first time using Docker). A PR would be welcome if there's a better way.

It does allow for a pretty clean parallel map builtin...

It does (image is Dr. House with a drawing of the pope holding an assault rifle, SFW) https://chatgpt.com/c/680bd5f2-6e24-8010-b772-a2065197279c

Normally this image prompt is refused. Maybe the trick wouldn't work on sexual/violent images but I honestly don't want to see any of that.

Yes, they do. Here you go: https://chatgpt.com/share/680bd542-4434-8010-b872-ee7f8c44a2...