Well, the magazine is singled out because unlike everyone else on the list (major newspapers, political parties and RedState) it's a minor organization. If the NSA had a major leak where they sent secret data to CIA analysts, the White House and the Russian Embassy, I would expect most news stories to focus on the Russian connection.
But one group should be singled out. The Libertarian Party. The other groups have promised to keep the data safe and return it. The Libertarian Party is fucking around with the idea of maybe returning/destroying the data. I get that we don't pretend the breech didn't happen, but FFS, now the Libertarian Party is putting the info in danger as well.
Saddam was not a really threat (a little but not that much)
Saddam was a huge threat. He almost developed nukes until his reactors were bombed. He had chemical weapons. He had the fourth largest military on the planet, engaged in a lot of skirmishes with Iran and engaged in a war of conquest against a defenceless neighbor.
Now all that shook out in the mit-to-late 80's, early 90's...
The point of medallions isn't to protect jobs. It's to try to control the number of cars driving around looking for a fare. and clogging up the street.
Usually ap private club is one that requires its patrons to actively apply for membership, and in some states requires a membership fee (whcih could be a nominal $5). Then there's rules on maintaining a list of members.
I can understand this being the case once in a while, but it seems like pretty much every time.
Because hindsight is 20/20. Intelligence agencies almost always own the information about an attack before it is committed. But they don't have enough reason to believe that attack is real vs. teh 300 other ones they also have indications of.
You're saying that women are scared away from a field because of how it is described. They are according to this piece scared of words. Are you fucking serious?
Of all the things to pick on, you choose the one sane thing? Everyone is scared away from various fields because of how it's described. I didn't join the Army because the way it's described is: "carry a gun while people shoot at you". That scared me away from that field.
Now, you probably meant the specifics about how it was described, but...
Microsoft has an amazing history of backwards compatibility. I mean, the SimCity hack is just my favorite, but they go on and on. If anyone can overcome the delays (not failure) in porting over Android programs, it's Microsoft.
And that's without taking into account their EEE mehtodology. Excel took off the same way, being 100% compatible with 1-2-3.
I don't understand why the GUI would even be difficult. There are a finite number of calls. All they have to do is be slavishly followed. If you want to make the GUI feel more MS'y, that'd be difficult. But first they embrace, then add a few MS only options, then boom.
What is about the number "14,000" that gives rise to the suspicion that some of them were priveleged?
The 14,000 were from prisons to lawyers' offices. That's where the suspicion they may have been privileged comes from. And it's only suspected, because it's a lot quicker to check numbers automatically, than to listen to many hours of recordings. That's going to happen later.
Machines are better at high-stakes poker than people are. Lack of nerves, plus infinite memory of each opponent plus the ability to math superhard and fast.
I've wondered how this wasn't gambling for some quite time
In 2006 Congress passed a law defining what was gambling. They explicitly cut fantasy sports out as not gambling. I think primarily because they were at the time played out over a whole season, and for comparatively very little money. The amounts played for given the amount of time you got to play made it more akin to a game than gambling.
Wouldn't there be a more even distribution of winners?
There are several hundred thousand players. There are a couple of events each day. Each event has one big winner who walks off with the lion's share. I'd say that 1-2% is the back of the envelope number for pure luck.
Now, it is as you say a combination of luck and skill.
I'm a libertarian and I'm OK with being treated like an adult, so I would favor legalization.
Yeah, but the guy who did this is a prosecutor enforcing ther laws as written. Not a legislator.
But he tried to preempt that argument with his second point about how the advertisments are deceptive, odds wise.
the participation of major league sports doesn't seem kosher.
If by participation you mean owning a chunk of the companies...
He's saying that it is illegal gambling, but he's also claiming that it is a problem because the top 1% of players win the lion's share of the money.
Those are two separate problems. He's claiming it is illegal gambling. He's also claiming that the advertising is deceptive, because most of the money is won by the top 1%. And the advertisements imply that anyone with reasonable football knowledge can monetize that by taking advantage of suckers.
Well, that [distribution]'d be the case if there was a great deal of skill involved, rather than relying mostly on luck
Well, the fantasy drafts are single day, winner take most (second-through-N get something) tournaments. So the payoffs are very skewed by who won. But I could make the same statement about Powerball/MegaMillions and be accurate. That doesn't make them games of skill.
TL;DR; even if the same person didn't win more than once on a fantasy site, the 1% number would still be substantively true.
I know you were sarcastic, but the odds are actually better. Fantasy sports leagues aren't like the standard $50 on the outcome of the game. They are, by federal law, arranged more like a poker tournament, where the top N positions in the league (determined ahead of time) get money. Unlike poker tournaments (or the state lottery) the payouts are fixed ahead of time. So, the percentage of monies in that become monies out are frequently lower than in casino gambling or the state lottery. So the odds (payout adjusted) are worse.
And, if it truly is a skill game, than the odds for those skilled are much better, but everyone without a degree in stats has worse likelihood, and far worse odds, than Powerball.
Maybe I misread the tensor page, but it looks like the installation is linux/mac only? If so, are they open-sourcing it trying tro drive people awya from Windows?
I mean, it's open source, so if that were the case there would be a Windows version PDQ. But it wouldn't be offical, needing to be updated by a third party.
The problem is marketing has promised a specific date
You think that date is arbitrary? It has to get locked by August, so it can get made in China, shipped to stores, etc. by the beginning of the Christmas season. Miss delivery and you miss Christmas. Miss Christmas and you may lose your studio.
Part of it is that the zero-day patch can have a month plus of dev time on it.
it supplies stuff people want cheaply and competitively.
It actually doesn't . People want to fix various problems in their lives. The suppliments claim they will. The suppliments don't. Hell, it's not even that cheap, and the market is filled with recalled tainted products being actively pushed by retailers.
The "market failure" you seem to be referring to is that it supplies a lot of crap that probably doesn't work, but that's crap people want.
Again, no. No one wants ginko balboa. Everyone wants better mental performance.
But, what's the
eople like you don't like the choices their fellow citizens make in a free market,
The uninformed choices fellow people make. We don't let children make some choices because they don't make good choices. Name one of the random suppliments that is a good choice.
Also, I find your use of the word "citizens" to be strange. You're okay with oppressing foreign nationals visiting the country.
nce your regulations start causing worse problems than they were intended to cure
Regulations causing problems does not imply they cause worse problems than what they try cure. They have both a cost and a benefit.
And it's not binary. The states aren't regulated/not regulated. We keep trying and we get better over time.
<sarcasm>But yeah, regulations definately broke health care.</sarcasm> It's why after Obamacare, the insurance companies are doing better, why "Snakeoil salesman" is now apocryphal and not a valid career choice, and why single-payer healthcare systems get better care than the US's.
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Well, the Libertarian Party says that they are not going to return/destroy the data, so...
Okay, that they're considering returning or destroying it, maybe.
Well, the magazine is singled out because unlike everyone else on the list (major newspapers, political parties and RedState) it's a minor organization. If the NSA had a major leak where they sent secret data to CIA analysts, the White House and the Russian Embassy, I would expect most news stories to focus on the Russian connection.
But one group should be singled out. The Libertarian Party. The other groups have promised to keep the data safe and return it. The Libertarian Party is fucking around with the idea of maybe returning/destroying the data. I get that we don't pretend the breech didn't happen, but FFS, now the Libertarian Party is putting the info in danger as well.
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Saddam was a huge threat. He almost developed nukes until his reactors were bombed. He had chemical weapons. He had the fourth largest military on the planet, engaged in a lot of skirmishes with Iran and engaged in a war of conquest against a defenceless neighbor.
Now all that shook out in the mit-to-late 80's, early 90's...
The point of medallions isn't to protect jobs. It's to try to control the number of cars driving around looking for a fare. and clogging up the street.
Well, subpoena's don't change intellectual property rights, so I'm not 100% sure how that would be relevant.
Usually ap private club is one that requires its patrons to actively apply for membership, and in some states requires a membership fee (whcih could be a nominal $5). Then there's rules on maintaining a list of members.
Because hindsight is 20/20. Intelligence agencies almost always own the information about an attack before it is committed. But they don't have enough reason to believe that attack is real vs. teh 300 other ones they also have indications of.
Of all the things to pick on, you choose the one sane thing? Everyone is scared away from various fields because of how it's described. I didn't join the Army because the way it's described is: "carry a gun while people shoot at you". That scared me away from that field.
Now, you probably meant the specifics about how it was described, but...
This gen is done. Next gen will come out again.
MS has the money to try again and again til it gets traction. They will have a Windows phone that succeeds, even if it's just a fork of Android.
I mean, hell, didn't they buy Cyanogenmod?
Microsoft has an amazing history of backwards compatibility. I mean, the SimCity hack is just my favorite, but they go on and on. If anyone can overcome the delays (not failure) in porting over Android programs, it's Microsoft.
And that's without taking into account their EEE mehtodology. Excel took off the same way, being 100% compatible with 1-2-3.
I don't understand why the GUI would even be difficult. There are a finite number of calls. All they have to do is be slavishly followed. If you want to make the GUI feel more MS'y, that'd be difficult. But first they embrace, then add a few MS only options, then boom.
The 14,000 were from prisons to lawyers' offices. That's where the suspicion they may have been privileged comes from. And it's only suspected, because it's a lot quicker to check numbers automatically, than to listen to many hours of recordings. That's going to happen later.
Machines are better at high-stakes poker than people are. Lack of nerves, plus infinite memory of each opponent plus the ability to math superhard and fast.
In 2006 Congress passed a law defining what was gambling. They explicitly cut fantasy sports out as not gambling. I think primarily because they were at the time played out over a whole season, and for comparatively very little money. The amounts played for given the amount of time you got to play made it more akin to a game than gambling.
Well, except that his order has to be followed under the law. A court can quash it, but until then it's the current legally binding ruling.
How do you look around a table of 300,000 people?
There are several hundred thousand players. There are a couple of events each day. Each event has one big winner who walks off with the lion's share. I'd say that 1-2% is the back of the envelope number for pure luck.
Now, it is as you say a combination of luck and skill.
Yeah, but the guy who did this is a prosecutor enforcing ther laws as written. Not a legislator.
But he tried to preempt that argument with his second point about how the advertisments are deceptive, odds wise.
If by participation you mean owning a chunk of the companies...
Those are two separate problems. He's claiming it is illegal gambling. He's also claiming that the advertising is deceptive, because most of the money is won by the top 1%. And the advertisements imply that anyone with reasonable football knowledge can monetize that by taking advantage of suckers.
Well, the fantasy drafts are single day, winner take most (second-through-N get something) tournaments. So the payoffs are very skewed by who won. But I could make the same statement about Powerball/MegaMillions and be accurate. That doesn't make them games of skill.
TL;DR; even if the same person didn't win more than once on a fantasy site, the 1% number would still be substantively true.
Oh, yeah, I suppose that may be a tad confusing. It's put 5 into x, both ways. I didn't think about inequalities and negative numbers.
I like the ability to assign either way, but that would coerce people into using whitespace in the comparisons.
I know you were sarcastic, but the odds are actually better. Fantasy sports leagues aren't like the standard $50 on the outcome of the game. They are, by federal law, arranged more like a poker tournament, where the top N positions in the league (determined ahead of time) get money. Unlike poker tournaments (or the state lottery) the payouts are fixed ahead of time. So, the percentage of monies in that become monies out are frequently lower than in casino gambling or the state lottery. So the odds (payout adjusted) are worse.
And, if it truly is a skill game, than the odds for those skilled are much better, but everyone without a degree in stats has worse likelihood, and far worse odds, than Powerball.
Maybe I misread the tensor page, but it looks like the installation is linux/mac only? If so, are they open-sourcing it trying tro drive people awya from Windows?
I mean, it's open source, so if that were the case there would be a Windows version PDQ. But it wouldn't be offical, needing to be updated by a third party.
You think that date is arbitrary? It has to get locked by August, so it can get made in China, shipped to stores, etc. by the beginning of the Christmas season. Miss delivery and you miss Christmas. Miss Christmas and you may lose your studio.
Part of it is that the zero-day patch can have a month plus of dev time on it.
Note, this only applies to disc-based deliveries.
I used to agree with you. Then I saw that R allowed you to use an arrow. Either way. So 5->x or x <- 5 are both valid. Kinda nifty.
If your CMS requires a competent admin to be secure, it has no business marketing itself as a turnkey solution.
It actually doesn't . People want to fix various problems in their lives. The suppliments claim they will. The suppliments don't. Hell, it's not even that cheap, and the market is filled with recalled tainted products being actively pushed by retailers.
Again, no. No one wants ginko balboa. Everyone wants better mental performance.
But, what's the
The uninformed choices fellow people make. We don't let children make some choices because they don't make good choices. Name one of the random suppliments that is a good choice.
Also, I find your use of the word "citizens" to be strange. You're okay with oppressing foreign nationals visiting the country.
Regulations causing problems does not imply they cause worse problems than what they try cure. They have both a cost and a benefit.
And it's not binary. The states aren't regulated/not regulated. We keep trying and we get better over time.
<sarcasm>But yeah, regulations definately broke health care.</sarcasm> It's why after Obamacare, the insurance companies are doing better, why "Snakeoil salesman" is now apocryphal and not a valid career choice, and why single-payer healthcare systems get better care than the US's.