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I find it somewhat hilarious that you had a clear demonstration that accidents can happen in fights, yet you still advocate escalating to violence before verifying if the violence can be avoided altogether.

You gave it by saying things like:

If your well trained and you are happy that your assailant is unskilled then it makes sense to take action :)

Anyway, I think the biggest difference in our standpoints is that I've been robbed at knifepoint.

In the moment, all I could really think was that I wanted to be around for my wife and kids far more than I gave a shit about anything else, so I decided, in the moment, that I'd engage only if it seemed like a physical attack was inevitable. I tossed the wallet, and avoided the attack.

I was, and still am, happy with the result. And I will continue to disagree with those (such as yourself) who advocate fighting simply when you think you'll win, drawing the line instead at fighting when there are no other viable options.

I did so because I cared far more about being present for my wife and children than I cared about the fact that some assholes would enjoy the contents of my wallet.

At the time I was practicing both boxing and karate on a daily basis, so I probably had decent odds in a fight... but why bother? I can get another wallet and some more cash. I can't get my daughter a new dad.

If this makes you think I have no backbone... well I suppose we simply have different principles.

That strikes me as bad math.

(and I guess then it comes down to "is he planning to attack me")

On this we agree. If there is clearly going to be an attack, then figuring out an optimal fight strategy is wise. But if there is an option not to have an attack, that seems even better.... even if you're confident that you have a 100.00% accurate ability to differentiate between superior/lucky and inferior/unlucky opponents.

Were you trained to believe that people who rob others at knifepoint are generally inexperienced with knife-handling and self-defense?

Because your entire post is predicated on that seemingly baseless and extremely risky assumption.

The first citations I can find in google scholar indicate that the odds of being killed during/after rape is roughly two orders of magnitude higher than the odds of being killed during/after a "cooperative" robbery, thus the differing calculus.

edit: Zimring and Zuehl's study shows that robberies with "active noncooperation" (refusal to hand over money, attempt to flee, resistence with force) had a death rate fourteen higher than those where the victims cooperated, and that victims who simply denied having money (but did not otherwise resist) had a death rate twice as high as those who cooperate.

I wish the article had more details, so I could confirm or refute my suspicion that nothing was "hacked".

That is emphatically not what his comment stated, nor how the effects work.

The specific argument is that by spending $1 to provide a service to a group of people, you increase the size of the economy, and consequently the tax base in that area, by more than $1, thus turning a net profit.

I was going to say that my efforts are uncorrelated to my wallet, but I don't think that's true; I think they're inversely correlated.

I hate to cite a second anecdote as rebuttal, but I don't have any controlled studies available :-)

It seemed a more worthwhile use of my resources than posting another comment that would have agreed with yours.

Sure, they were inconvenienced and annoyed for a day or two, but it generated lots of publicity for their startup, not to mention lots of people linking to their site.

At the end of the day, I think the only loser here is Citi.. at least I hope that's the case.

I suppose their market share puts some pretty heavy demands on scalability, but a 500k sf datacenter is a lot of datacenter, and storage is fairly dense these days.

Add to that the fact that music files deduplicate very well across millions of people and I'm left wondering if they're doing photos and video too, or something else altogether, or if my back of the envelope estimates of the square footage requirements for such a service are just way off.

Their idea won, but now I'm saddled with an awful, clunky satellite DVR that doesn't do anything useful with the unused space, and that has an interface that continues to baffle me slightly, despite having used it for a few years now.

They probably think that they're using an "agile" methodology.

Now... would you like the 24 month extended warranty? That widget is a piece of shit that is likely to catch fire the moment you bring it home.

As a simple example, if Tim Bond thinks my investments are positioned poorly, I'll listen intently to his feedback and think long and hard about how best to react to it. If, on the other hand, gurglesplat123@somesite thinks I'm positioned poorly, I'll pay very little attention.

The joy of differentiation!

I'm not in a state of terror about Osama, are you?

Also, someday you might find yourself interested in a masters or doctoral program. That's gunna be a tough sell if you weren't able to complete a Bachelors.

Suck it up, do your work, and find some other way to amuse yourself until the coding classes get more interesting.

Really, the only question is how much to raise, or if to limp. the limp/mini-raise tactics would be there essentially to add some deception to post-flop play.

Ace high is a pretty strong hand heads-up, even with the shit kicker, as the odds are against your opponent flopping any pairs at all.

They don't state this on their website, and they claim you can give to anyone, not just charities, which makes me wonder if you lose the tax-deductibility by using givv.

They had approximately $300b in additional debt.

This article exists because many readers like to pretend that bankers are the root of all evil.

Does this mean that Grow VC will pretend that you are loaning to one specific individual, while actually just backfilling loans that have already been made by other organizations?

You already said you weren't a lawyer. No need to prove it dramatically.