> I've never understood why it's ok for people to waste their money on HBO but not fantasy sports
I've never understood why it's okay for people to waste money on fantasy sports but not on Ponzi schemes.
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I've never understood why it's okay for people to waste money on fantasy sports but not on Ponzi schemes.
Actually, I think it's more common to simply tell Android to not send tethered data to a special "tethering" APN.
Frankly, I bought my phone, I can configure it how I want to, and I see no reason to allow T-Mobile to configure my phone for me.
I think you mean hilarious
Because you're weighing in on a complicated subject without considering your inherent biases. You're conflating the success of individuals with equal opportunity. Having a black president doesn't mean we're in a post-racial society, being able to point to black athletes and movie stars doesn't mean there's no disaprites in educational funding or discrimination in employment.
But worst of all, you've decided that because your advantages of birth are invisble to you, they must not exist. This is like deciding you don't have a cornea because you can't see it directly.
Look in a mirror, and instead of dismissing the idea of privilige, see if you can actually see it in your life experience. Perhaps you can look here as a starting point. https://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/1662103.pdf
There are plenty of casios, and many of them comply with the law. People who choose to gamble there might be exploited by some definition, but it is consentual. But Primedice is a casino that uses bitcoin to allow users to circumvent local gambling laws, and thus exploits weakness in criminal laws.
(I will not discuss the morality of current anti-gambling laws in the US, as any rational person can see the hypocrisy in the current system of state-sponsored lotteries and state-granted casino monopolies)
> don't be surprised if people try to exploit your weaknesses for profit.
Primedice reusing a nonce/seed is like a casino dealing blackjack from a marked deck. It is so incredibly stupid that you are guaranteed to have someone notice, and clean you out while still playing by yor rules.
Note that they are offering a reward for the "return of the [bit]coins". I assume that means they are offering that if someone hacks a bitcoin wallet and gives them the proceeds, they will share a fraction of the stolen assets. I would happily make the same offer; paying random people who give me bitcoins from hacked wallets some of the stolen bitcoin, except that I'm not an exploitive, criminal-minded narcissist rationalizing theft to support the operation of a gambling site based on a cyber-currency designed to facilitate extra-legal activity.
Short answer: Pigs will fly.
Long answer, in order for this to happen, the high transactional costs of cryptocurrencies (FX costs, electricity, blockchain rewards, transaction fees, etc.) will have to look reasonable compared to the cost of doing business in "fiat" currency. This is currently only true for illegal activity, such as drug dealing or evading currency controls, but if the world changes enough to make cryptocurrencies a reasonable alternative to the majority of people, something terrible has happened to the world.
Which is why I wear a Moto 360 with a metal band. Because it looks like a watch. And it's not a conversation starter unless someone sees me using voice control (it's pretty good at picking up commands sotto voice, but I still look like a fed talking to a microphone in my sleeve).
I didn't say anything that disagrees with this statement, I simply said that for the last decade the way to increase profits has been to bring in migrant workers from overseas, and lay off skilled domestic workers, and there's no reason wh the approach won't continue to be the same in the face of a hypothetical domestic skills shortage.
In fact, the idea that there are "other countries with people [...] that can program" is a strong disincentive to have an apprenticship/training program, and reinforces that the primary solution to expanding hiring is going to continue to be H-1B visas and not education.
Sounds good to me. More actors, more variety. Maybe we wouldn't see every single sci-fi/action movie star Tom Cruise.
Yes, hire a temporary worker with an H-1B visa or outsource it outright.
As long as people think they can get rich quick, it's a good design.
One can argue that those who pay off a $250k college loan to a small liberal arts college are creating a moral hazard for loan issuers and college adminstrators who keep jacking up tutition.
The article proposes that if everyone were to default, educational costs would be returned to a more rational level.
Personally, I think that the cost of college education will continue to increase to a significant fraction of the value of the college education, to somewhere around half a million dollars. This is basic economic theory, and will result in fewer students finishing college, and a continuing increase in crushing debt.
I hope the game itself is more logical than this.
https://docs.python.org/2/faq/programming.html#how-can-i-pas...
I'll take that hedge fund job now.
The amount of money we spend on effective social welfare programs (e.g. food stamps) added to the money spent on ineffective social welfare programs (e.g. farm subsidies) is pretty enormous. If this money, including the administration costs, were instead distributed as "helicopter money" (e.g. alaska Permanent Fund), the economic benefits and social benefits might be signifincant improved.
The original article examines a "white-glove" approach to ending poverty, this requires significant resources to train and compensate the people working for the program. I would like to the testing of the null hypothosis, an amount of cash equal to the program cost given directly to a control group.
Homesteading is a great way to work significantly harder for a lower standard of living.
> Your math/programming skills will help immensely if you want to build and automate everything yourself
Your math/programming skills will help a lot more by helping you exchange your labor for money, which you can then exchange for food, clothing, and shelter. Your average developer salary can buy you more and better food and goods than you can make yourself in a cabin in the woods.
If you prefer to spend 30 minutes a day collecting $6.00 worth of eggs and milk, that's a lifestyle choice, not a financial one.
I also think these MRIs that show the spead of cancer have done tremendous damage to the body medically.
Yes, that's why in the non-internet world, when someone breaks into my house, I now have the right to commit identity fraud, make false statements, and commit arson of their neighbor's property.
Awesome. More DMCA abuse. And this is why we need penalties against bad actors who knowingly file fraudulent takedown requests.
Does empireflippers know they are also the bad guys in this story?
Psychic prediction. In ten years, there will be some jurisdictions where possesion of a copy of the bitcoin ledger will be a criminal offense.
If you don't understand they 30% is reasonable, then you haven't tried to sell a game in the last 5 years.
That 30% you're paying increases your sales by a factor of 50x, and game developers are quite happy to take 70% of a much larger pie.
Not yet at least. However car (and tractor) manufacturers are moving to make such activity illegal using encryption and intellectual propertly laws.
I'm not saying this is a good thing, just that our current regulatory regime supports this model.
Contemporary computing is parallel computing. Even phones have multiple cores.
Mods represent value added to the game that wasn't provided by the original publisher. Each mod "fixes" a deficiency in the game, adds, changes, or removes something the original developer did not do from the baseline game. The changes add value to the publisher's bottom line by increasing the value of the game, thus stimulating additional sales.
Thus the idea that modders both increase demand for the game, increasing the publisher's sales, AND want the lion's share of the money paid for mods is repugnant.
Note that 25% is pretty generous when you're creating a derivitive work off of someone else's IP. See Kindle Worlds http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001197421 for an example of the kind of deal you'd be lucky to get.
Still, it's a good thing overall. There's enough interest in Javascript that demand for a javascript application server isn't going away, and having a headline project that pushes the envelope is a way to keep innovation and interest in the ecosystem.
You're right, Apple is significantly worse.
Microsoft went out of it's way to make sure that competitors applications didn't work (DOS isn't done until Lotus 123 won't run). This sparked a development arms race wasting hundreds of hours of development time working around intentional compatibility bugs.
On the other hand, Apple sometimes just doesn't let your software run at all. No matter what. Because fuck you, that's why. Your company plays by Apple's rules and tithes to Apple or it dies on iOS. Oh, and Apple reserves the right to kill your compay's sales on iOS for any time, any reason, including stealing all your ideas and competing with you.