Spanish5000, end of depression, $50 windfall.

[floydcollins]

I hope the depression monster is back in its cage for a while

Comments

[gawm]

Who has $50 bills? Johns and drug buyers!

Also, my mother.

[lindseykuper]

Also, by extension, prostitutes and drug dealers.

[floydcollins]

As we learned from The Wire, there are separate people to take the money, and deliver the product, so that no one photo captures the whole transaction. So, whether the people who receive the $50 is a *drug dealer* is debatable. It's just a coincidence that they get a $50 and the person handing them the money receives drugs soon after! A COINCIDENCE!

Homework 3: model this interaction using your favorite asynchronous / message passing framework of choice.

[lindseykuper]

I haven't seen The Wire, but OK, fine, replace "drug dealer" with "gang leader who ultimately tells both money collector and product deliverer what to do". And I would think that the more sophisticated gang leaders will set things up so there's not a single point of failure. And the whole system is all the more impressive for not being documented anywhere.

[gelishan]

So wait, you have a $50 bill! Which are you, a john or a drug buyer? Or perhaps gawmbot's mother?