Gambling = betting on yourself to win and get extra money
Gambling is games of chance. Like the roll of dice. Here, the chance is whether some big-shot shows up or not.
Insurance = betting on yourself to lose, and not have to pay extra money.
From TFA:
you still get to go and enjoy the game
So, I get my $400 back and still can attend the game. If the game were cancelled, or I turned my ticket back in, I'd call it insurance. Just like flight insurance for a cancellation or missing your plane. I can actually see ways to game this system by buying game tickets, insuring them and then scalping them (sans the coverage). I get a $400 return on $30 and the ticket is still 'good' in that the final holder can still attend.
That graph shows a 7% increase in ISP for a 70% increase in ISP. IIRC, there is only so much you can increase the mass flow rate by squeezing harder at this point on the operating curve.
As a non-Californian shareholder in a few of these big data companies, I can see numerous lawsuits springing up. The state is producing a new class of 'shareholder' unilaterally that will take a cut of companies revenue before the rest of us get paid. I put shareholder in quotes because I don't see where members of this class will be required to take ownership positions (buy stock) as a condition of receiving the dividend.
The goal of the self-appointed gatekeepers of The Truth is to silence dissent or alternate points of view. Particularly when theirs won't stand up to scrutiny.
Are YouTube ratings useful for filtering search content like the Slashdot moderation system is? If not, let the people click Dislike to their hearts content. And let the Streisand Effect do its work.
Depends on why you are running it. If I run my own VPN from home or a local co-loc data center, then it looks to the remote site like I am at or near my present location. One uses a foreign VPN when one wants to appear to be in that country*. If Evil Foreign governments can hijack that VPN, they can also hijack the sites I am visiting. So this isn't about me being safe from Evil Foreigners. This is about the NSA not being able to (easily) sniff my traffic.
*There are other reasons to run a VPN. Like connecting to an internal network or I just don't trust the local coffee shop ISP. But if I've gone out of my way to establish a virtual foreign presence, then in all probability I am connecting to a foreign site.
I expect that the usual consumers of NBC tripe won't understand or care about the difference. But Slashdot, being a news source for nerds and other technically aware people, will.
Using the wrong terminology. Glaciers melting raise sea level. Ice shelves melting don't cause it to rise. Uncorrected, this news story could trigger greenies for years to come.
The void is likely a result of a net outflow of ice from the glacier over time
That tends not to carve out voids at the bottom of glaciers. When the terminal end of the glacier moves away, upper portions fracture straight through under tension, creating crevasses. One thing that does erode glaciers from the bottom is melt water. Either dropping to the base of a glacier through crevasses from the surface or due to volcanism underneath the glacier. Melt water is quite evident, so lacking that evidence, it really looks like volcanism.
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Gambling = betting on yourself to win and get extra money
Gambling is games of chance. Like the roll of dice. Here, the chance is whether some big-shot shows up or not.
Insurance = betting on yourself to lose, and not have to pay extra money.
From TFA:
you still get to go and enjoy the game
So, I get my $400 back and still can attend the game. If the game were cancelled, or I turned my ticket back in, I'd call it insurance. Just like flight insurance for a cancellation or missing your plane. I can actually see ways to game this system by buying game tickets, insuring them and then scalping them (sans the coverage). I get a $400 return on $30 and the ticket is still 'good' in that the final holder can still attend.
The Soviet solution was to use multiple smaller injection systems in separate combustion chambers.
The German solution. Evidently, they kidnapped better rocket scientists than we did.
That graph shows a 7% increase in ISP for a 70% increase in ISP. IIRC, there is only so much you can increase the mass flow rate by squeezing harder at this point on the operating curve.
I don't get fed by looking at eggs, ya know?
You get fed by owning a share of the goose. Not sitting around waiting to be fed by the egg thief.
As a non-Californian shareholder in a few of these big data companies, I can see numerous lawsuits springing up. The state is producing a new class of 'shareholder' unilaterally that will take a cut of companies revenue before the rest of us get paid. I put shareholder in quotes because I don't see where members of this class will be required to take ownership positions (buy stock) as a condition of receiving the dividend.
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#people
Read that as 'pound'.
Wow, they've invented insurance.
Wow. They invented gambling.
This will fly under the various state gambling commissions' radar for, oh, about 15 minutes.
I hope those 5G sites are fireproof, hurricane-proof, flood-proof, etc.
you are the dog, at the whim of some billionaire psychopath.
Hey Elon! I just pooped. Grab a plastic bag and get that.
By scaring people with unfounded horror
Terrorism?
This.
The goal of the self-appointed gatekeepers of The Truth is to silence dissent or alternate points of view. Particularly when theirs won't stand up to scrutiny.
Are YouTube ratings useful for filtering search content like the Slashdot moderation system is? If not, let the people click Dislike to their hearts content. And let the Streisand Effect do its work.
They just pray over their sick kids until they die. It costs very little.
And they have twelve more kids, so it's not that big a deal anyway.
Well, I haven't had to work since I was in my late 20s. But I enjoy working, so I do.
I watch my neighborhood at night through a night vision scope. So everyone looks green.
I might want to watch a foreign news stream. Some of these are geo-blocked outside of their home markets. BBC is notorious for doing this.
In those cases, obviously you run your own VPN.
Depends on why you are running it. If I run my own VPN from home or a local co-loc data center, then it looks to the remote site like I am at or near my present location. One uses a foreign VPN when one wants to appear to be in that country*. If Evil Foreign governments can hijack that VPN, they can also hijack the sites I am visiting. So this isn't about me being safe from Evil Foreigners. This is about the NSA not being able to (easily) sniff my traffic.
*There are other reasons to run a VPN. Like connecting to an internal network or I just don't trust the local coffee shop ISP. But if I've gone out of my way to establish a virtual foreign presence, then in all probability I am connecting to a foreign site.
When the Ds and the Rs get together on something it means money. Someone is afraid that a US citizen might be hiding some wealth somewhere.
Sounds like Brexit for cats.
It's an NBC news headline - what do you expect?
I expect that the usual consumers of NBC tripe won't understand or care about the difference. But Slashdot, being a news source for nerds and other technically aware people, will.
What part is propaganda please?
Using the wrong terminology. Glaciers melting raise sea level. Ice shelves melting don't cause it to rise. Uncorrected, this news story could trigger greenies for years to come.
This part of the glacier is over water
Then it's an ice shelf, not a glacier. Terminology is important in science. Not so much in propaganda.
The void is likely a result of a net outflow of ice from the glacier over time
That tends not to carve out voids at the bottom of glaciers. When the terminal end of the glacier moves away, upper portions fracture straight through under tension, creating crevasses. One thing that does erode glaciers from the bottom is melt water. Either dropping to the base of a glacier through crevasses from the surface or due to volcanism underneath the glacier. Melt water is quite evident, so lacking that evidence, it really looks like volcanism.
They also go faster between speed traps.
Of course. We've got to make up for the lost time.
Well, TFS said this was about DWI checkpoints, not speed traps.
You know nothing about this, why opine?
Because I can read.