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Larger head-size relative to the body, larger eyes, smaller jaws and noses, longer limbs, etc.
Interesting parallels across species towards less aggression, greater pro-social behavior, more physical traits that shout "trust me, I'm harmless."
Almost like pro-social, intelligent team co-operation is a huge advantage compared to solo predatory behavior.
The local chicken farmer who works 16 hours a day to keep his farm running isn't going out of his way three times a week to visit the community center for board game night.
He's definitely in the local Tractor Supply store three times a week though...
It's about creating community where people naturally gather, not creating a gathering space then hoping people show up.
"Zohran’s revenue plan will raise the corporate tax rate to match New Jersey’s 11.5%, bringing in $5 billion. And he will tax the wealthiest 1% of New Yorkers—those earning above $1 million annually—a flat 2% tax (right now city income tax rates are essentially the same whether you make $50,000 or $50 million). Zohran will also implement common-sense procurement reform, end senseless no-bid contracts, hire more tax auditors, and crack down on fine collection from corrupt landlords to raise an additional $1 billion."
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14-aM9DKG337SDMilmfQtLRR-pDw...
Any large enough organization gathers them en mass to cloud real development work with "compliance."
Even more so when there is a bounty payout.
Refundable if the PR/report is accepted.
1) Most card rooms these days are 8 or 9 players, so your team would need to be at least 3, maybe 4 to really swing the odds in your favor.
2) You need a subtle but effective way to signal to your team the relative strength of your hand. Think baseball signals, but way more low key. "If I touch my watch, I have an Ace" etc. You'll probably want to mix these up across the hours or days of play.
3) Seats typically do open one at a time, and you want to trickle in your team to avoid suspicion. Higher stakes games, like $5-10, where there are thousands of dollars in front of most players are your goal, and good news is that these are typically more rare so there may be only one table running. Your teammates will have to wait it out, but once at the table, they can stay for hours.
4) You'll never know exactly what your targets are holding, but knowing that your teammates folded a flush draw for example can help you narrow your opponents cards to a smaller range of possibilities. You'll want to position your teammates around the table to create "squeeze" situations where two of the team can trap a target in between.
It takes some creative subtlety, but it can be very hard to impossible to detect collusion in live games.
The game is similar to chess when played at a moderate to high level.
The poker game itself in high-roller situations could be a million plus per night depending on the stakes.
Then there's the whole "you owe the Mafia" angle with NBA players and coaches. It's a pretty clear line to the Mafia making tens of millions of dollars on rigged NBA games.
Second, the FBI is targeting real world Mafia members, who will typically be the bookies taking action from others. If they know in advance, through blackmail or collusion that an NBA player or coach will throw a game, they can exploit this versus their entire betting pool for massive wins against the suckers placing bets with them.
It seems that the smaller the task and the more tightly defined the input and output, the better the LLMs are at one-shotting.
If a first time visitor to Substack doesn't know this, it's a bad experience.
My employer rarely has that level of urgency, let alone a side project that is probably revenue negative!
This feels like a hit piece...
Watch the company fire 50% of the engineering team then hit a brick wall at 100mph.
What a time to be alive!
Here are some of the very best in the category, it would be really cool if you partnered with any of these.
https://www.youtube.com/@hungryhorsepoker
I’m a Python dev and I’m happy to contribute to a project is you get it started.
I got bored waiting for long running scripts to finish one day and wrote this bash one liner.
Now I can run a command and put a pipe and the zzz alias on the end and it will tell me when it’s finished.
> alias zzz='echo "zuhg zuhg\n" "work work\n" "lowk taar\n" "jobs done\n" "sawobu\n" "dabu\n" "i can do that\n" "be happy to\n" "OK\n" "no time for play\n" "my life for the horde\n" "what you want?\n" "master?\n" "dabu\n" "for the horde\n" "okie dokie\n" "hragh\n" "something need doing?\n" "ready to work" | shuf -n 1 | say -vRocko'
I don’t know if this is the best use of the tech we’ve found yet, but it’s already a huge time saver.
You can't just walk into any bank branch you have an account with an expect to withdraw 10s of thousands of dollars without notice.
Also, there are tons of people with online only banks. No physical branches at all!
Technology destroys old industries and creates new ones.
Apple should do the right thing and support early VisionOS development using the Quest Pro.
Set a reminder to check your contact list once a week.
Message someone on there you haven't talked to in a while.
Say something nice, hello, how are you, have you seen the latest tech news?
If you make this as easy and routine as brushing your teeth, you will very soon be overflowing with people who know and like you.
Kindness, consistency, and contact are all it takes.
Set a reminder, once a week, to look at your LinkedIn. Ping someone you actually know, just to say hi. This keeps you fresh in their minds as someone who does X, and is still alive.
Finally, if you want to expand your network, just ask these same people if they know anyone else doing X and then send them a hello.
Very low-effort and direct contact is 100x more powerful than a blog post anyway!
It has replaced 95% of my previous DuckDuckGo searches for development info.
I even used it with another developer to solve a mission critical bug based on some very vague symptoms. It's saved so much time, I'll never go back.