chilldream

Washington is one of the few states that doesn’t allow employers to pay below minimum wage even to tipped employees. Maybe Seattle is different since its city minimum wage is above the state minimum, but those Seattle waiters aren’t making $3 or whatever pre-tip.

https://www.lni.wa.gov/WorkplaceRights/Wages/Minimum/

It was coined by a judge attempting to justify legal censorship of someone protesting the existence of the draft.

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

I highly recommend his policenauts play through for anyone who reads this site. He talks a lot about the romhacking process (the game had no English version until he helped patch it in)

https://lparchive.org/Policenauts/

The creators sure care if they can make back their development costs or not.

Gambling games are bad for the exact same reasons that grind-based are bad: people play them for the addictive reward mechanisms. If you're not affected by those mechanisms, you're usually left with garbage.

Variable rewards are also the reason why poker is one of the few games with a heavy skill component that can move large amounts of money directly between players; few people are willing to be a sucker. So losing players have to either get something else from the experience, or be convinced that they aren't losing players.

I said elsewhere in this thread that skill-based vs. luck based is a continuum. The most popular poker games tend to land on the sweet spot where "enough luck that bad players can think they're good" and "enough skill that you can actually be good" meet.

> It may be more the dealers themselves with the "casino" turning a blind eye.

That strikes me as even less likely. Given that dealers are tipped from winning players, they wouldn't want to cheat in the house's favor unless they're also pocketing the extra winnings. This is the equivalent of overcharging customers and then skimming from the register, except the store's surveillance is better than most.

FWIW, the one instance I have first-hand knowledge of someone being ratted out, it was the casino's owner. She asked a surveillance employee to destroy a tape and he sent it to the state Gaming Commission instead.

If it's company policy, the employees have plenty of incentive to snitch to gaming boards. I used to hang out with a lot of casino dealers in Washington state and every one of them would sell out their boss that day if they were told to do something like this.

> But if someone choose to go all-in blind pre-flop then they are choosing to play the game as pure gambling and their version of the game would be pure chance.

This isn't making the game pure chance; it's just cutting off that player from future decisions. The opponents still get to call or fold, which means the opponent is manipulating the odds that the all-in player will win a contested pot.

"Game of skill" vs. "game of luck" is not a binary distinction, but the law pretends it is. I think it's definitely closer to the "skill" end of the continuum than the "luck" end though.

Large companies tend to err on the side of taking down more than they legally "have to". I know of YouTube videos that were taken down because of copyright claims that were outright false (that is, the entity making the claim didn't even have any rights to the material that was allegedly being infringed). There's a lot of room to be more lenient than YT and still on the right side of the law.

Yeah, and for that matter "fundamentalism" has been associated with certain elements of the Christian right (like biblical literalism) at least since the 90's.

I've lost the link, but something like that actually did happen in the US recently. It surely helped that it was so flagrant and that there was video evidence, but a teacher was arrested for encouraging a bunch of kids to beat up another kid in the halls.

He didn't say it was like card counting. He said that it exists on a continuum, somewhere that is clearly less legitimate than card counting but not obviously cheating like bringing loaded dice.

Your analogy is actually worse; the cards came pre-marked. So they didn't mark the cards, but they did go out of their way to exploit the existence of marked cards.

Is this something that doesn't happen in some climates? I've never noticed nor even heard about this "toast sweat" in my life.

They may not even have permission to air what they already have; some of the developers hadn't even signed the contract yet.

If people are getting mad at going back a page by accident, then they are going back a page by accident. It's happened to me, and while I'm still not entirely sure why, I really don't care why. The "Self Destruct" button shouldn't be next to the "Make Phone Call" button.

If anything many people are pushing harder in this direction. For instance, consider the push for mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients even though the places have tried it have discovered that:

1) Almost no one fails them 2) They cost more money than they save (in cancelled benefits)

I agree with the article, but "There are Starving Kids in Africa" is a stock bad argument

The really funny thing is this is one of her least obvious posts and some people still take the bait every time. I still can't believe that people fell for the stuff about using Node Package Maid over Javascript and deprecating their California Style Sheets.

No, Jenn Schiffer is firmly anti-satire:

https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/2412631958ef

His name is Ken White. And he tweeted this today: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/443809025902129152

MMM is not a lawyer. As an analogy, consider CFAA and other "hacking" related prosecutions where the layman might not be able to tell if a charge is without merit, but a domain expert acting in good faith can.

Doesn't the fact that it's minimax mean that it's "unwinnable with sufficiently bad luck" though? I mean if there's a mistake in the AI it's that it assumes that the game is maliciously picking the worst possible tile placements. If it dropped those assumptions, then it would lose if the AI just happened to hit the "worst" placement every time by accident.

Assuming you mean all fonts everywhere, I got that too. I thought the next website I looked at went through some kind of redesign until I realized that the next two websites I looked at also looked like that.

What the...that tweet is over a year old!

Can't speak for the author's current opinion, but he did voluntarily start a Rails app recently:

http://www.discourse.org/faq/#tech

Your argument loses a lot of weight when you consider that since we're talking about stuff on the Internet, most of the examples in OP could just, y'know, link to it. But that wouldn't let them get ad revenue for someone else's work.

Copying entire works (even a blog post counts) is not fair use.

> Just go to plus.google.com/settings and disable everything and be happy

Until they add more things that are checked by default like that "let any random yahoo email me" feature.

I can assure you that I still follow the same YouTube channels I was following before and my complaints about the comment system are very well-informed. I will concede that comment threading is somewhat better, and it's nice that people can actually post links now, but there's still plenty to hate. Hell, here's just what's annoyed me in the last day:

I can't keep myself signed in. Well, kind of; g+ UI was designed by trolls, so what actually happens is that I appear to be signed in until I actually try to do anything, at which point I'm asked to sign in. Sometimes I even sign in, try to check my notifications, and am asked to sign in again.

Anytime I post a comment "Also post to Google+" is pre-checked. I can't make it unchecked by default.

I have had a YouTube account for years. Since the changeover, I receive more spam from random strangers every week than I did over the rest of the account's lifetime combined. I now also get newsletter spam from YouTube itself (I'm now looking at an email entitled "Well... these love songs are awkward on YouTube", like that is something I would ever want). On the bright side, I clicked the unsubscribe link and unlike the last three times, it didn't throw a server error, so I'll see if it takes.

Despite never flagging any of the above as spam, my Gmail spam filter has started catching my subscription emails as spam. That is, the legitimate communications from YouTube that I specifically asked for are the ones getting killed, as opposed to the scummy newsletters I was autosubscribed to and the new spam vector that is g+.

If this stuff seems minor, keep in mind that it's all the fault of something that I didn't ask for, never wanted, and actively tried to avoid.