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So is this not one of the earliest grifts?

by colesantiago 2y ago

sampullman 2y ago
Grifting must be pre-historic.
- entropicdrifter 2y ago
  Yeah, for real. They think that grifting was invented as recently as 1892? That's insane. One of the earliest known pieces of written language is some sanskrit calling one guy's limestone a ripoff. Basically a bad Yelp review. Obviously you don't need reviews if everyone is honest, ergo grifting most likely existed before written language
  - bigstrat2003 2y ago
    > One of the earliest known pieces of written language is some sanskrit calling one guy's limestone a ripoff. Basically a bad Yelp review. When you came, you said to me as follows: "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!" Tale as old as time, really.
    - spiritplumber 2y ago
      https://www.reddit.com/r/EaNasir/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EaNasir/
throw0101c 2y ago
> So is this not one of the earliest grifts? This is one of the earliest instances of a Stratum 1 (2?) time server.
- bauruine 2y ago
  She set her watch to the time of the Greenwich Observatory (Stratum 1) so it's Stratum 2 time server.
  - throw0101c 2y ago
    Would not the Observatory be Stratum 0, as it was the 'atomic clock' of its day? > These are high-precision timekeeping devices such as atomic clocks, GNSS (including GPS) or other radio clocks, or a PTP-synchronized clock.[30] They generate a very accurate pulse per second signal that triggers an interrupt and timestamp on a connected computer. Stratum 0 devices are also known as reference clocks. NTP servers cannot advertise themselves as stratum 0. A stratum field set to 0 in NTP packet indicates an unspecified stratum.[5]:21 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Clock_strata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Clock_st...
geodel 2y ago
Doesn't look like to me since people are buying time even today. And they feel okay about it.
AStonesThrow 2y ago
It gives new/old meaning to the idiom "she wouldn't give you the time of day" because that's worth money and it's gonna cost you! Can I interest you in some cockles or mussels?

So is this not one of the earliest grifts?

sampullman 2y ago

Grifting must be pre-historic.

entropicdrifter 2y ago
Yeah, for real. They think that grifting was invented as recently as 1892? That's insane. One of the earliest known pieces of written language is some sanskrit calling one guy's limestone a ripoff. Basically a bad Yelp review. Obviously you don't need reviews if everyone is honest, ergo grifting most likely existed before written language
- bigstrat2003 2y ago
  > One of the earliest known pieces of written language is some sanskrit calling one guy's limestone a ripoff. Basically a bad Yelp review. When you came, you said to me as follows: "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!" Tale as old as time, really.
  - spiritplumber 2y ago
    https://www.reddit.com/r/EaNasir/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EaNasir/

throw0101c 2y ago

> So is this not one of the earliest grifts? This is one of the earliest instances of a Stratum 1 (2?) time server.

bauruine 2y ago
She set her watch to the time of the Greenwich Observatory (Stratum 1) so it's Stratum 2 time server.
- throw0101c 2y ago
  Would not the Observatory be Stratum 0, as it was the 'atomic clock' of its day? > These are high-precision timekeeping devices such as atomic clocks, GNSS (including GPS) or other radio clocks, or a PTP-synchronized clock.[30] They generate a very accurate pulse per second signal that triggers an interrupt and timestamp on a connected computer. Stratum 0 devices are also known as reference clocks. NTP servers cannot advertise themselves as stratum 0. A stratum field set to 0 in NTP packet indicates an unspecified stratum.[5]:21 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Clock_strata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Clock_st...

geodel 2y ago

Doesn't look like to me since people are buying time even today. And they feel okay about it.

AStonesThrow 2y ago

It gives new/old meaning to the idiom "she wouldn't give you the time of day" because that's worth money and it's gonna cost you! Can I interest you in some cockles or mussels?