Pedantic: No, he was presented with a risk-reward trade off and he made a successful call. We don't know enough to properly judge if it was a correct call, it just worked in this instance.
Still. Let's say you're playing Blackjack and you're dealt a 19, while the dealer has an 8 showing. If you double down and wind up with 21, and the dealer ends up at 20, you may have made a winning decision--but that doesn't mean it was a smart decision, just lucky.
Not that someone suffering a pulmonary embolism is in a great situation to weigh their options very well. I think the ideal might be calling 911 to say "I'm going northbound on I-Whatever at exit 100, if an ambulance can catch up with me I'll have my hazard lights on and be laying on the horn; I'll pull over when I see the ambulance so you can save my ass. Either that or you can drag my unconscious body out when my car stops".
It's also a lot cheaper to drive yourself than call an ambulance, but someone with a Tesla is probably not very worried about that.
They keep removing management features, they keep forcing weird searches on users, they are slowly crippling Steam in favor of their app store -- am I really just seeing the negative stuff when it's not so bad, or is there some major Stockholm Syndrome going on? I'm pretty happy with Windows 7 on my nine-year-old gaming laptop that's slowly flaking out and has finally stopped keeping up with new releases.
I've heard you can activate your old license key for Windows 10 without upgrading your machine...is that viable if you want to apply it to a new computer, or is it tied to the hardware like Win 7 licenses?
When I worked for AMZN, parking was like $200/mo after company reimbursement, so there are definitely financial incentives to living somewhere within walking distance. (I lived somewhere where busing would turn a 40 minute commute to a 70 minute one, and I value an hour a day not on the road.) Hell, it would be a pretty tough call on how much less space I'm willing to live in to trade for a ten minute walking commute. Back when I was single at least--not so much now.
It sucks, because there are both ethical and seriously unethical uses for that kind of data collection. I don't necessarily want it in anyone's hands, but a "white hat" statistician could use it to really help urban planning / civil engineering / etc without hurting anyone in the process. Kind of like medical data that way.
You have to be seriously naive to think that people collecting this info are on your side, but I know I'd be annoyed if I worked with the data for good purposes and had no way to avoid this kind of stigma.
If you live in an area with a lot of pokestops (read: 'densely populated area'), free items flow like water, and if you're at all careful to keep some pokeballs around, you won't get caught needing more. If you live in an area without many of them, then you might run into pokemon a lot more often than you run into places to naturally recharge your items, and running into that rare critter you want might make you desperate enough to spend money for more pokeballs on the spot.
Much like Ingress though, it's helpful to go into it expecting that equipment shortages are just part of the game (because they are). Much like Ingress, if you're a heavy player, it's probably worth five bucks to buy extra item storage. And unlike Ingress, if you have powerful enough monsters, or live in an area where people slack off, you can hold onto a gym and get free in-game money to buy premium stuff without spending a cent.
In Ingress, aside from maxing out your storage capacity, the only time people usually spent real money was to boost portals for large groups to use, and not everyone did that (go out drinking with a dozen players, and one or two of them boost the portals the bar is sitting on). I expect the same thing to happen here, except that Lure modules have been really frequent in town, a lot more frequent than the Ingress equivalent. I'm not sure if that's because they are cheaper, or because the game is less viciously competitive (so you don't need to plan how to keep the enemy team from taking advantage). Either way I don't think money is going to be a huge thing...again, unless you live so far out in the boonies that you run into wild pokemon way more than you run into pokestops. Me, I'm constantly having to throw away pokeballs because my inventory gets too full.
I have a feeling that some businesses are going to try and monetize this game for their own purpose. It's like $15 to keep a portal boosted up with Lure modules for a whole day, and if you're lucky enough to control access to it (like, can only reach it from inside your restaurant), you could probably introduce some new customers who might otherwise go somewhere else? It's one form of advertising, at least.
I think the idea is that it's a tax, which goes into a fund to ameliorate climate change effects. Doesn't help the oil companies (unless you count preventing them from being sued for climate change because it's now out of their hands). Sucks for energy availability to the poor though. I wonder what fifty years of suffering through that would do to our infrastructure though. Mass deaths? Cheap and ubiquitous mass transit and subsidized heat efficiency improvements to housing?
Each one had a sample size of 1% of their user base, which is probably a larger sample size than all human-research studies published in a given year combined. I'm betting that when you plot colors on an axis against user behavior, it makes a nice curve too.
Huh, my first comment didn't post so this might be duplicated. You're not actually awarded points for extra lives; if you beat the last level with lives remaining, they're wasted. So you get to the last level, then spend all lives except your last one collecting as many points as are possible during a life, and finally beat the game with your last life. Confusingly written, but correct play.
Oh! I think I see what's going on. The game only has 22 levels, and you are not directly awarded extra points for extra lives remaining. Instead, if you run out the clock on a life and score all possible points, then you've converted that extra life into points. So get to the end, blow all but the final life getting points, and finally complete the game. Confusingly written, but correct play.
I wound up migrating from FB to Twitter, which has its own problems but not nearly as many. Meetup works for planning things without Facebook (and has a lot more features).
Happens to me constantly. Very often, on a new post, it'll say something like--2 posts, 7 hidden... but nothing shows up. I drop my threshold, hit load all comments, everything I can think of, and some show up, but never the amount quoted. Any ideas?
Most of everyone's supporters are uninformed reactionaries who get angry pretty easy and are jealous of whatever they don't have. That's just American politics (okay, all politics). It's easy to say "The crazies in my own group are just a vocal minority, but look how many and how loud they are in everyone else's party!"
I don't know that it's even possible for a venue to avoid influencing the discussion. Who you market your "town square" to determines who shows up. How you deal with abusive users matters (and there's always some people who really do need to be kicked out). Whether you focus on small groups of people talking to each other, or whether you hand out microphones; whether there's a stage for people to get up on, and what's the process for letting people onto it, all that stuff can really impact what people hear.
The bigger you are, the more outsiders you'll have who want to do whatever's possible to spread their own messages on your platform, and basically every single policy you make is going to impact who gets heard and who doesn't.
Checks and balances against mob rule. Lots of voters get their news from CNN and Fox and don't think too far beyond the current election cycle. A small number of politicians making decisions based on their own personal interests is a bad thing, but combine that with 51% of the general public doing the same, and one of them might be able to stop the other from doing something catastrophically stupid.
If you get enough of the popular vote on your side, superdelegates can't do anything to stop you, which is as it should be.
Mob rule isn't a good thing, and corrupt leaders can (in some ways and at some times) be better than no leaders. Leadership trying to keep Trump out of office, even against the wishes of their own party, is good for the system.
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Pedantic: No, he was presented with a risk-reward trade off and he made a successful call. We don't know enough to properly judge if it was a correct call, it just worked in this instance.
Still. Let's say you're playing Blackjack and you're dealt a 19, while the dealer has an 8 showing. If you double down and wind up with 21, and the dealer ends up at 20, you may have made a winning decision--but that doesn't mean it was a smart decision, just lucky.
Not that someone suffering a pulmonary embolism is in a great situation to weigh their options very well. I think the ideal might be calling 911 to say "I'm going northbound on I-Whatever at exit 100, if an ambulance can catch up with me I'll have my hazard lights on and be laying on the horn; I'll pull over when I see the ambulance so you can save my ass. Either that or you can drag my unconscious body out when my car stops".
It's also a lot cheaper to drive yourself than call an ambulance, but someone with a Tesla is probably not very worried about that.
It's like seeing everyone I knew in junior high, all over again.
They keep removing management features, they keep forcing weird searches on users, they are slowly crippling Steam in favor of their app store -- am I really just seeing the negative stuff when it's not so bad, or is there some major Stockholm Syndrome going on? I'm pretty happy with Windows 7 on my nine-year-old gaming laptop that's slowly flaking out and has finally stopped keeping up with new releases.
I've heard you can activate your old license key for Windows 10 without upgrading your machine...is that viable if you want to apply it to a new computer, or is it tied to the hardware like Win 7 licenses?
How the heck do you even back up a site like that?
It's not lost, it's intentionally deleted for unknown reasons.
When I worked for AMZN, parking was like $200/mo after company reimbursement, so there are definitely financial incentives to living somewhere within walking distance. (I lived somewhere where busing would turn a 40 minute commute to a 70 minute one, and I value an hour a day not on the road.) Hell, it would be a pretty tough call on how much less space I'm willing to live in to trade for a ten minute walking commute. Back when I was single at least--not so much now.
When?
It sucks, because there are both ethical and seriously unethical uses for that kind of data collection. I don't necessarily want it in anyone's hands, but a "white hat" statistician could use it to really help urban planning / civil engineering / etc without hurting anyone in the process. Kind of like medical data that way.
You have to be seriously naive to think that people collecting this info are on your side, but I know I'd be annoyed if I worked with the data for good purposes and had no way to avoid this kind of stigma.
If you live in an area with a lot of pokestops (read: 'densely populated area'), free items flow like water, and if you're at all careful to keep some pokeballs around, you won't get caught needing more. If you live in an area without many of them, then you might run into pokemon a lot more often than you run into places to naturally recharge your items, and running into that rare critter you want might make you desperate enough to spend money for more pokeballs on the spot.
Much like Ingress though, it's helpful to go into it expecting that equipment shortages are just part of the game (because they are). Much like Ingress, if you're a heavy player, it's probably worth five bucks to buy extra item storage. And unlike Ingress, if you have powerful enough monsters, or live in an area where people slack off, you can hold onto a gym and get free in-game money to buy premium stuff without spending a cent.
In Ingress, aside from maxing out your storage capacity, the only time people usually spent real money was to boost portals for large groups to use, and not everyone did that (go out drinking with a dozen players, and one or two of them boost the portals the bar is sitting on). I expect the same thing to happen here, except that Lure modules have been really frequent in town, a lot more frequent than the Ingress equivalent. I'm not sure if that's because they are cheaper, or because the game is less viciously competitive (so you don't need to plan how to keep the enemy team from taking advantage). Either way I don't think money is going to be a huge thing...again, unless you live so far out in the boonies that you run into wild pokemon way more than you run into pokestops. Me, I'm constantly having to throw away pokeballs because my inventory gets too full.
I have a feeling that some businesses are going to try and monetize this game for their own purpose. It's like $15 to keep a portal boosted up with Lure modules for a whole day, and if you're lucky enough to control access to it (like, can only reach it from inside your restaurant), you could probably introduce some new customers who might otherwise go somewhere else? It's one form of advertising, at least.
That sounds dangerous. I wouldn't want to change my 'laid off' unemployment qualification to "fired with cause".
The game that taught me how the sound of banging two spoons together, slowed way down, sounds like one robot punching another in the face.
I think the idea is that it's a tax, which goes into a fund to ameliorate climate change effects. Doesn't help the oil companies (unless you count preventing them from being sued for climate change because it's now out of their hands). Sucks for energy availability to the poor though. I wonder what fifty years of suffering through that would do to our infrastructure though. Mass deaths? Cheap and ubiquitous mass transit and subsidized heat efficiency improvements to housing?
Each one had a sample size of 1% of their user base, which is probably a larger sample size than all human-research studies published in a given year combined. I'm betting that when you plot colors on an axis against user behavior, it makes a nice curve too.
Huh, my first comment didn't post so this might be duplicated. You're not actually awarded points for extra lives; if you beat the last level with lives remaining, they're wasted. So you get to the last level, then spend all lives except your last one collecting as many points as are possible during a life, and finally beat the game with your last life. Confusingly written, but correct play.
Oh! I think I see what's going on. The game only has 22 levels, and you are not directly awarded extra points for extra lives remaining. Instead, if you run out the clock on a life and score all possible points, then you've converted that extra life into points. So get to the end, blow all but the final life getting points, and finally complete the game. Confusingly written, but correct play.
If it's beatable, then it's not a perfect game.
I wound up migrating from FB to Twitter, which has its own problems but not nearly as many. Meetup works for planning things without Facebook (and has a lot more features).
Happens to me constantly. Very often, on a new post, it'll say something like--2 posts, 7 hidden... but nothing shows up. I drop my threshold, hit load all comments, everything I can think of, and some show up, but never the amount quoted. Any ideas?
Most of everyone's supporters are uninformed reactionaries who get angry pretty easy and are jealous of whatever they don't have. That's just American politics (okay, all politics). It's easy to say "The crazies in my own group are just a vocal minority, but look how many and how loud they are in everyone else's party!"
I don't know that it's even possible for a venue to avoid influencing the discussion. Who you market your "town square" to determines who shows up. How you deal with abusive users matters (and there's always some people who really do need to be kicked out). Whether you focus on small groups of people talking to each other, or whether you hand out microphones; whether there's a stage for people to get up on, and what's the process for letting people onto it, all that stuff can really impact what people hear.
The bigger you are, the more outsiders you'll have who want to do whatever's possible to spread their own messages on your platform, and basically every single policy you make is going to impact who gets heard and who doesn't.
Checks and balances against mob rule. Lots of voters get their news from CNN and Fox and don't think too far beyond the current election cycle. A small number of politicians making decisions based on their own personal interests is a bad thing, but combine that with 51% of the general public doing the same, and one of them might be able to stop the other from doing something catastrophically stupid.
If you get enough of the popular vote on your side, superdelegates can't do anything to stop you, which is as it should be.
Mob rule isn't a good thing, and corrupt leaders can (in some ways and at some times) be better than no leaders. Leadership trying to keep Trump out of office, even against the wishes of their own party, is good for the system.
Speaking as a human, I agree with your statement but find it less than useful for my decision making.
With the ridiculous land values, installing a system like this would only be a tiny fraction of the home value, at least.
A hill so very steep that it's in perpetual shadow for the entire year? That's a pretty steep hill, even for San Fran.