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I was randomly thinking about this Riquelme guy, and how he said he was gonna sign Haaland if he wins😭 He wanted to use Florentino Perez’ playbook on him😂😂 In year 2000, Perez told the Real Madrid socios to vote for him for president, that if he wins, he’ll sign Luis Figo😂 You know the crazy part? The sitting president had won two champions league in 3 years. In fact, they just won a champions league, he was successful. You wonder how Perez was going to unseat him 😂 Figo was the best player in the world, in fact, he won BDOR later that year, and he was a Barcelona player. Perez had to look for something to say to convince people to vote him and not vote a successful president. Then he came up with a masterplan, he said if he wins the election, he’ll sign Figo. In fact, he said the best players ought to be playing for Real Madrid and he’ll bring them here, that was the start of the Galacticos era (Zidane, Delima, Beckham, etc joined after Figo…up till Cristiano, Kaka, Mbappe…till date, Perez has kept that word). Signing Figo was an impossible feat. Figo was a Barcelona player, it’s impossible…and Figo had a release clause of 60m. No player has ever been signed for that amount. Record sale was Christian Vieri for £30 to Inter Milan. Figo loved Barcelona, he was a god there, how will Perez convince him to sign? No top Barcelona player should move to Real Madrid. If you want to understand better, think of Messi in his prime going to Real Madrid, exactly!!! First thing Perez did was call Paulo Futre who was a friend to Figo. He told him the plan, Futre then got in touch with Figo’s agent, Jose Veiga. FP promised them some mad money, he said if they can make the deal happen, Futre will get 1.5m euros and Veiga will get 3m euros, which they eventually both got. Futre was also the reason Veiga got up to that amount, because he lied to Perez that Veiga wanted more money as agent commission😅, he didn’t only lie to Perez, he lied to Figo’s agent and deceived him to sign a pre-contract. Veiga couldn’t resist that money, Figo will also be paid x4 of the wages he was earning at Barcelona. Veiga was desperate for Figo to join. Figo did not sign any pre-contract, it was his agent, Veiga…Veiga claimed he got a go ahead from Figo to sign it, but Figo denied it. This is where it gets crazy, the pre-contract agreement that Veiga signed on behalf of Figo had a clause. Gosh Perez is crazy. Perez included a clause that if he wins the presidency, and Figo doesn’t come to Madrid, Figo/Veiga will pay him 30m euros😂😂😂, and Veiga signed it. When Veiga told Figo about Madrid’s interest, Figo told him to meet Barcelona’s hierarchy to tell them about the fact that a club (no mention of Real Madrid) was willing to pay off his release clause, but he doesn’t want to leave Barcelona, so they should improve his contract. Gaspert was Vice President of Barcelona then, and was contesting for presidency too. He called whatever Veiga told him a bluff, no one could pay that release clause, they also just improved Figo’s contract a year before, so he felt Figo was greedy. Anyways, the media started the rumour, it’s one of the craziest saga in football history. Figo was the biggest player in the world, everywhere went crazy. They would capture Figo’s agent in meetings with Perez, they would monitor Figo everywhere. Real Madrid players like Roberto Carlos and Hierro said they never believed it was going to happen. Figo felt under-appreciated because the hierarchy weren’t taking him seriously, but he still didn’t want to leave. Perez had now won the election. Figo said he’s not leaving Barcelona. Perez then asked Veiga to pay the 30m😂 Veiga almost ran mad, where would he get that money? Figo didn’t care, he wasn’t the one that signed the pre-contract. Veiga had to beg Figo to please go to Madrid, or if he wasn’t gonna go, can he just have a meeting with Perez to just talk things out. Figo decided to meet with Perez, who convinced👇🏽

Speedline @speedlne

2 months ago

The moment Enrique Riquelme confirmed Erling Haaland will be his star signing for Real Madrid.

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I've been playing video games since I was like 5 so I'm able to rely on my experience, but playing with people who just don't play games really makes me think about how something that comes naturally to me, like the ability to "read" a level, is a skill you need to work at

Working a shift from 125 feet(!!) in the air 😳 A unique view from one of the coolest jobs in golf.

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I highly recommend the Kinnu app. They’re like mini courses – I’ve done cybersecurity, behavioral economics, animal intelligence, Ancient Rome, and much more! Currently doing the American Civil War. It’s a very enjoyable way to learn about thingssss!

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7 months ago

Please I'm begging you people, take an interest in other things that do not necessarily have anything to do with your career. You could be an Engineer, but please read up on literature. You could be a lawyer, but at least be curious who Frank Lloyd Wright was. Be curious man.

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The joy isn’t in knowing — it’s in figuring out.

Great question. When you store passwords, you don't store them directly (that would be unsafe). Instead, you "hash" them. It is hashing that turns "password123" into something like "a7f8k2m9x4". The problem is, if two people use "password123", they both get the same hash result. Hackers know this and have giant cheat sheets that say "if you see a7f8k2m9x4, the original password was password123." The solution to this is "salting". Before hashing the password, you add some random junk to it. So for User A, you might add "xyz" to their password, making it "password123xyz" before hashing. For User B with the same password, you add different junk like "abc", making it "password123abc". Now when hashed, they look completely different. Benefits of salting is that even if a million people use "password123", every single one looks different in your database. Hackers have to work much harder to crack each password individually

SumitM @SumitM_X

8 months ago

What is salting and why do we salt passwords?

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WARTIME QUANT TRADER MODE ACTIVATED.

A Thought From @naval; Wasted time is when you are not being present for the reality before you.

Starting a company is solving a simultaneous equation - you’re convincing the money that you have the talent, and the talent that you have the money.

The purest reason to make something is not to make money and not even to make the thing. It’s to have the experience of making the thing - and no one can take that from you.

YOU CAN NOT AFFORD TO IMAGINE FAILURE.

Quant Companies List🚀 This is probably the most requested topic so I have compiled a list of 400+ trading firms,hedge funds,banks, hfts which have quant role opportunities. This will help you alot while applying and keeping track of your quant journey status. Github:-github.com/priyanshupriya… This took alot of efforts so I would really request if you could share and repost with everyone! Happy Quant learning🚀🙌

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