If you ALWAYS play the math you cannot lose because no matter what crazy tricks your opponent tries to pull on you, the math will pan out.
Uh, no.
While playing the math is true for a limited subset of hands -- do I call a single bet on the turn (with one card to come) while drawing to the nut flush with 7 clean outs (non-board-pairing flush cards) every time the turn bet is less than 1/7th of the expected pot size? -- absolutely.
...but you can't possibly make solely math-based decisions for every hand. You can't just "math" to decide if TPTK is good on the river or not. You can't "math" to decide if your opponent is bluffing. [You can incorporate math in your decision for both of these things, but you can't use math and math alone to play poker.]
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't the Volt just qualify for only a portion of the credit? $2500 plus, with a 16-17kWH battery, another $1251 for about $4000?
So, ~$35,000 base (TFA), minus the federal credit puts the car around the same price as the $27,000 TDI, albeit with a requirement of having paid enough taxes the last year to claim the credit.
If you can get 55mpg out of diesel, you're paying about $2.30/gal (down over a dollar in the last year) or a bit over 4 cents mile. Assuming the Bolt has similar miles per kWh as other electrics, it too is going to get 4 miles to the 12.5c US average kWh, which costs a bit over 3 cents per mile.
So, yes, you only save $155/year in fuel costs over the most efficient gas car on the road. Your "gas station" moves to your house (plus any public location with chargers and front-row preferrential parking), you probably gain access to HOV lanes, and as long as you live in a part of the world that doesn't just burn coal for electricity, you pollute less too.
I, for one, enjoy unlimited HOV access while saving money and polluting less.
"Tells," for short, are hardly the end-all be-all of poker play.
Further, a well written poker robot would bluff a certain percentage of hands.
My only objection with the computer picking the best play strategy for 3 x 10^14 possible decisions is that in exactly the same situation, the right move would be, often, to make different choices, especially based on the makeup of the table, how your previous hands played, how the table reacted to those hands, etc. "Regardless of what its opponent does" leaves me skeptical.
I have no doubt that this can beat the field and win at poker. Bots have been doing that forever.
...but the right play in a limit game may be to 3-bet bluff or check-raise opponents based entirely on who they are or how they play. The entire idea that this bot is unbeatable, and a different bot with the same 3 x 10^14 decision tree and a different play-style (LAG/TAG) couldn't out-maneuver this bot is absurd. It's pure hubris by the team.
I understand your desire for a la carte programming, but live sports is what stops a *lot* of people from cutting the cord and just going to Hulu, Netflix, Prime, or SomeOtherService.
Getting ESPN is a Big Hairy Deal for cord cutters, and it's the title of the article. Your only other option was to hope that your cable provider let you tune into ESPNU or similar from your IP range...or to pirate your college sports.
You can think of this as ESPN is $20 a la carte, and includes some free channels with it:)
Presumably your "works with Nest" door lock simply announces who has opened the door, and the Nest responds by toggling the thermostat from "away" to "home", plus or minus a few degrees of comfort depending on the user's RFID/BT who opened the door.
Nest doesn't talk to the door lock at all, it only listens.
I trust my cars to keyless receivers. I know they're hackable, but much like the Nest, I prefer the security/usability tradeoff of simply walking to my car and having it unlock and having pushbutton start.
I'm not sure anyone sees an internet connected thermostat as "the next big thing;" but that doesn't mean it's not a fantastic convenience device and that the learning features are saving people money.
Other than a few people who have incompatible multistage heat pumps, and ignoring the sort of conformation bias by those who opted in early, there's still good savings to be had with a smart thermostat. Connecting it to the internet makes it even more aware. It can save me more money if it knows I'm not coming home tonight, and not to bother heating up the house until I'm actually on my way.
I'm not rushing out to buy Bluetooth door locks (mostly since we rarely lock the doors in our milquetoast suburban neighborhood), but products with the "Works with Next" logo seem a no-brainer if you've already got some devices that can talk to each other. It may not be a big hassle to take your keys out of your pocket when you come home and walk over to your thermostat once you're inside the house, but some of us like convenience and automation. Google's keeping an arm's length from Nest, but as soon as location services is fully integrated, I'll be happy Nest realizes we all left the house without turning down the thermostat and lowers it for us.
Most of us recognize you're as get-off-my-lawn of a regular as Slashdot has, but you might be missing the boat on something like Nest. It's a good product, and "works with Nest" is simply a sign that other manufacturers have realized it too.
You've got 1,000 airplanes, and they're the lest CO efficient ones in all the skies. If you can operate them with the CO efficiency of the company with only 65 planes (who does nearly the best), then you stand to make a huge impact in the pool.
All planes together average 1 There's, say, 1,000 AA planes all averaging 1.2 "bad CO's" per year, because they're the worst There's, say, 2,000 other planes together averaging.9, the best 65 from Spirit only produce.8
As such, you all come together to produce 3000 bad CO's - 2.5% of the world's total.
If you drop your 1,000 1.2's to.8's, you end up saving 400 "bad CO's" per year and drop to 2.1%
If AA, one of the largest airlines with one of the worst scores could achieve the number that Spirit (one of the smallest airlines with the best numbers) could, perhaps 2.5% of global emissions could become 2.25% or 2%.
If a half percent of all global CO emissions could be eliminated, that'd be noteworthy, and a good start.
(a) Not everyone celebrates Christmas, and even those people who do might stage their celebrations on other days to accommodate complex family schedules; and (b) Don't be a dick because we don't all enjoy the things you enjoy.
In my house, to accommodate a blended family schedule, we celebrated on Christmas eve. On Christmas day, with all the children safely shipped off to another set of parents, I made plans to go to a friend's house, where we'd online game together, in old-school LAN-style solidarity while the women gathered in the kitchen to gossip. Needless to say, our plans were ruined by asshats on the internet.
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Your fake incredulity aside, not everyone is so lucky as to be planning for retirement.
Some people simply hope to die peacefully at their desk or behind their counter.
If you ALWAYS play the math you cannot lose because no matter what crazy tricks your opponent tries to pull on you, the math will pan out.
Uh, no.
While playing the math is true for a limited subset of hands -- do I call a single bet on the turn (with one card to come) while drawing to the nut flush with 7 clean outs (non-board-pairing flush cards) every time the turn bet is less than 1/7th of the expected pot size? -- absolutely.
Ditto. Leased our Leaf and our Fusion Energi.
Also, the lease specials on the Leaf were pretty much a no-brainer for us.
Which new $30,000 luxury cars do you speak of?
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't the Volt just qualify for only a portion of the credit? $2500 plus, with a 16-17kWH battery, another $1251 for about $4000?
The Bolt should qualify for the entire $7500.
Neat idea, but nearly every major manufacturer offers fully electric vehicles now.
They're just as happy to sell them as they are gas cars.
Insightful, I see...
So, ~$35,000 base (TFA), minus the federal credit puts the car around the same price as the $27,000 TDI, albeit with a requirement of having paid enough taxes the last year to claim the credit.
If you can get 55mpg out of diesel, you're paying about $2.30/gal (down over a dollar in the last year) or a bit over 4 cents mile. Assuming the Bolt has similar miles per kWh as other electrics, it too is going to get 4 miles to the 12.5c US average kWh, which costs a bit over 3 cents per mile.
So, yes, you only save $155/year in fuel costs over the most efficient gas car on the road. Your "gas station" moves to your house (plus any public location with chargers and front-row preferrential parking), you probably gain access to HOV lanes, and as long as you live in a part of the world that doesn't just burn coal for electricity, you pollute less too.
I, for one, enjoy unlimited HOV access while saving money and polluting less.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu, at Uruk.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
Any good poker play knows that "playing the opponent" is only a small part of playing poker.
What do any of those things have to do with limit hold'em?
The best you can do with another robot is to tie.
Poppycock. Pure nonsense.
Another bot with the same 3 x 10^14 possible decisions could beat it over time based on play-style alone.
What's your decision tree say to do here when you're check-raised? Oh, it says fold? I've discovered that? Guess what happens now...
"Tells," for short, are hardly the end-all be-all of poker play.
Further, a well written poker robot would bluff a certain percentage of hands.
My only objection with the computer picking the best play strategy for 3 x 10^14 possible decisions is that in exactly the same situation, the right move would be, often, to make different choices, especially based on the makeup of the table, how your previous hands played, how the table reacted to those hands, etc. "Regardless of what its opponent does" leaves me skeptical.
I have no doubt that this can beat the field and win at poker. Bots have been doing that forever.
Good.
$5M is a lot, but I've long suggested that any significant amount of BTC be stored on a printout in a safe, with a backup in a safe deposit box.
Can those bitcoin stealing malwares pickpocket my wallet from a printout in a manila envelope in my safe?
If I had millions of USD in BTC, I'd have to consider having several offline wallets.
It's how, say, Icelandic patronymic names work, giving you such awesome names as Björk Guðmundsdóttir, but not everyone does the -son/daughter thing.
If Cox's economy gets you CBS/NBC/FOX/ABC (and, I'm pretty sure it does), then yes, ESPN pretty much seals the deal.
I understand your desire for a la carte programming, but live sports is what stops a *lot* of people from cutting the cord and just going to Hulu, Netflix, Prime, or SomeOtherService.
Getting ESPN is a Big Hairy Deal for cord cutters, and it's the title of the article. Your only other option was to hope that your cable provider let you tune into ESPNU or similar from your IP range...or to pirate your college sports.
You can think of this as ESPN is $20 a la carte, and includes some free channels with it :)
Presumably your "works with Nest" door lock simply announces who has opened the door, and the Nest responds by toggling the thermostat from "away" to "home", plus or minus a few degrees of comfort depending on the user's RFID/BT who opened the door.
Nest doesn't talk to the door lock at all, it only listens.
I trust my cars to keyless receivers. I know they're hackable, but much like the Nest, I prefer the security/usability tradeoff of simply walking to my car and having it unlock and having pushbutton start.
I'm not sure anyone sees an internet connected thermostat as "the next big thing;" but that doesn't mean it's not a fantastic convenience device and that the learning features are saving people money.
https://community.nest.com/thr...
Other than a few people who have incompatible multistage heat pumps, and ignoring the sort of conformation bias by those who opted in early, there's still good savings to be had with a smart thermostat. Connecting it to the internet makes it even more aware. It can save me more money if it knows I'm not coming home tonight, and not to bother heating up the house until I'm actually on my way.
I'm not rushing out to buy Bluetooth door locks (mostly since we rarely lock the doors in our milquetoast suburban neighborhood), but products with the "Works with Next" logo seem a no-brainer if you've already got some devices that can talk to each other. It may not be a big hassle to take your keys out of your pocket when you come home and walk over to your thermostat once you're inside the house, but some of us like convenience and automation. Google's keeping an arm's length from Nest, but as soon as location services is fully integrated, I'll be happy Nest realizes we all left the house without turning down the thermostat and lowers it for us.
Most of us recognize you're as get-off-my-lawn of a regular as Slashdot has, but you might be missing the boat on something like Nest. It's a good product, and "works with Nest" is simply a sign that other manufacturers have realized it too.
You've got 1,000 airplanes, and they're the lest CO efficient ones in all the skies. If you can operate them with the CO efficiency of the company with only 65 planes (who does nearly the best), then you stand to make a huge impact in the pool.
All planes together average 1 .9, the best 65 from Spirit only produce .8
There's, say, 1,000 AA planes all averaging 1.2 "bad CO's" per year, because they're the worst
There's, say, 2,000 other planes together averaging
As such, you all come together to produce 3000 bad CO's - 2.5% of the world's total.
If you drop your 1,000 1.2's to .8's, you end up saving 400 "bad CO's" per year and drop to 2.1%
If AA, one of the largest airlines with one of the worst scores could achieve the number that Spirit (one of the smallest airlines with the best numbers) could, perhaps 2.5% of global emissions could become 2.25% or 2%.
If a half percent of all global CO emissions could be eliminated, that'd be noteworthy, and a good start.
As long as you define "getting more bandwidth" as "defending against DDOS," I suppose your statement is true.
(a) Not everyone celebrates Christmas, and even those people who do might stage their celebrations on other days to accommodate complex family schedules; and
(b) Don't be a dick because we don't all enjoy the things you enjoy.
In my house, to accommodate a blended family schedule, we celebrated on Christmas eve. On Christmas day, with all the children safely shipped off to another set of parents, I made plans to go to a friend's house, where we'd online game together, in old-school LAN-style solidarity while the women gathered in the kitchen to gossip. Needless to say, our plans were ruined by asshats on the internet.
Well, the game I wanted to play relied on massive online interaction anyway, so depending on other systems is sort of in the cards...
watch it with friends between Christmas and the New Year.
It won't take quite that long.