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by dogruck 9y ago
Some stores offer coupons and price matching guarantees to attract price sensitive customers. Some stores tout that every customer gets "the same low price." A new facet on the old games.
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by dogruck 9y ago
One other factor is sometimes you actually are willing to take principal risk -- like when there are hoards of people willing to place bad bets on the local team -- you're willing to run an unbalanced book.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Yes, you open yourself up to counter party risk.
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by dogruck 9y ago
The downside of that strategy is you will frustrate your customers and they will trade/bet elsewhere.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Yes -- customers don't like it because it's too hard to win. Said another way, customers will choose to place bets with market makers, instead of some paramutual operation.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Correct -- the market maker (or casino) is under no obligation to take your action. And, why should they be? The penalty for refusing action is that you take your business elsewhere.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Easier said than done. Suppose your book is balanced, and you have $25,000 on each side. Then a new bet comes in, size $250,000, on one side of your book -- what to do? Or, more simply, when you set your initial line, what do you do when a
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by dogruck 9y ago
Agreed. Mesa Verde in Colorado is also fantastic.
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by dogruck 9y ago
One fact I find notable with these "massive" societies in the American South West is how small they were. For example, the linked article describes a site with hundreds of rooms. That implies thousands of people. And, Chaco was th
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by dogruck 9y ago
Relevant to this era of Harvey Weinstein: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/seduce-the-whole... Briefly, Gordon Lish had a proud reputation of seducing and emotionally abusing his students. (That said,
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by dogruck 9y ago
Filtering tweets based on bad language sounds like an easy user-based-configuration. Do you think that Google's search results should contain pages with foul language or hardcore pornography? Or are you OK with Google's "saf
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by dogruck 9y ago
That's nonsense, and I bet your comment will justifiably get down-voted to oblivion. On the other hand, I suspect many HN users will agree with your general sentiment. My response is that the political spectrum is cyclical. Therefore,
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by dogruck 9y ago
If Twitter genuinely wanted to be transparent they would share general about reported tweets, and what influences action on them. I wouldn't be surprised if one of those "greedy cunts" is a lawyer who sent Twitter a letter.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Yes, I know two women who were explicitly doxed. Their cell phones started ringing incessantly. People posted and retweeted snapshots of their tweets. Oh -- one woman is transgender and she was "outed" as a "man." Twitte
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by dogruck 9y ago
I smell some unsubstantiated opinions. Raise government research budgets to "where they should be" sounds like a good recipe for wasteful spending. I might be on board with "govt matches private contributions."
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by dogruck 9y ago
Interesting. I have a few reactions to that: * still bad that it took days given the exponential decay of social media impact * as you point out, that's some low hanging fruit. For example, they explicitly permit parody accounts of
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by dogruck 9y ago
Oh no, the internet search-driven-advertising monopoly is getting some static from regulators. Not Fair! Maybe the CEO should have a 3 martini lunch with some Investment Bank CEOs.
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by dogruck 9y ago
I think a big step forward would be a "right to be forgotten." Currently, the Twitter hoard is free to dox, "parody" and generally permanently harass any private citizen. Anyone who has attempted to use Twitter's r
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by dogruck 9y ago
Confusing because the problem statement says you cannot assume anything about the data structure storing each set. To me, that implies it must be treated as a stream -- not an array with indexing. But yeah, if they are arrays, you use bina
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by dogruck 9y ago
If the CFTC writes a report about, say, Corn Futures, they talk about what the rules are, and what you can do if you get scammed because a bad actor violates those rules. The CFTC might say, "you have the right to appeal a decision&qu
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by dogruck 9y ago
I agree that if you never get down votes, then you're not adding maximum value.
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by dogruck 9y ago
born into this into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed into a place where the
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by dogruck 9y ago
I wouldn't characterize the 20 slide deck as "neutral." Namely, 6 of the 20 slides warn about risks that can be summarized as "you have no recourse if something goes wrong." I think the primary publication motivati
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by dogruck 9y ago
I've never heard of several proper nouns in these threads: Intercom, Selenium, Drift. Time to Google.
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by dogruck 9y ago
I feel ya. I have three thoughts: 1. Could view it as a cultural thing. For example, some cultures might embrace minimal personal space. And, the media keeps talking about the "tiny house movement." 2. Everything is relative.
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by dogruck 9y ago
It's actually a relative luxury to live in a car. Living in a car is more expensive than, say, living on a cot in a group shelter. If we were most concerned about maximizing efficiency, we'd all be living in dense urban environme
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by dogruck 9y ago
Two reasons: - living outside of a city is actually a luxury. Cheap land, but a long distance to culture and services. Most people cannot afford a car, for example. - rural living is more detrimental to the environment
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Also, if you are a regular BBG reader, and anything in that article is news to you, than you should be worried and get updated.
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by dogruck 9y ago
At some point, following that logic, your multiple online personalities are truly distinct. For example, "okay, so you have one account exclusively post hard core right-wing arguments in the early morning, and then your second account
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They will fingerprint your online presence timing, writing style, forums, audience, etc.

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