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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I haven’t been around long, but based on what I see at local game stores, it seems like they’re still printing sets going back to 2021… so they print a set for 2-3 years typically?
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
So my thinking is that if they control supply (they do of course), they control demand, and that there is no “per-card” demand curve. If a card is reprinted and drops from $100 to $50, they can reprint until it’s $10
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Sounds like the latter
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Very similar to Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos where “fake it till you make it” was abused and taken to the point of “fraud”.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Oh absolutely it was an extortion attempt from the shop. Name and shame if you can.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Sure, and that in itself is an interesting observation, but they’re obviously speaking to the entirety of the graph. I’m not the author and I think the correlation is relatively weak, I’m just trying to explain what they were going for.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The graphs aren’t very clear and the wording could be better. The author isn’t coming out of left field, but the correlation isn’t that strong per the graph. Nevertheless, it’s an interesting observation and I’m glad they highlighted it.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
My theory is that all cards will eventually be under $10, because cards like Mana Crypt are opportunities for WoTC to make money via reprints. I’ve only been playing/buying since March, but I’ve seen so many cards dropping dramatically
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The wording is a bit confusing. They mean that as income increases, the number of republicans increases, while democrats remain more or less constant across income levels. In other words, poor people tend to be D and rich people are more li
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Software engineering today reminds me of how the 80s were with stock trading. Lots of money getting thrown around and blown on stupid shit, and then seemingly overnight the credit crisis tightens belts and computers make the trading floors
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
When I was still in college I got an internship at a local startup. One day, the other SWE and I went to lunch with a former coworker of the other SWE, and he told a story about how he worked on a team for YEARS that ended up not creating a
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
So… why pay for Paramount+ at all?
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
What’s the difference between JSONB and BSON?
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
There’s a balance I think many of us try to strike because we find pirating “everything” to be cumbersome, but at the same time we recognize that pirating is unavoidable as there are some TV shows and movies that aren’t on any subscriptio
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The only legal grounds that really matter are that (in the US) an IP address cannot be used to identify an individual. https://www.technologylawdispatch.com/2011/05/privacy-data-p...
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Why do you pay for Paramount+ Essential (the one with ads) and then pirate stuff that’s available through it, rather than A) not pay for Paramount+ at all and just pirate or B) pay for the more expensive Paramount+ plan and not pirate?
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
iTunes DRM used to be abysmal. There was a time when the music was not DRM-free. Not only that, you were limited to the number of copies of CDs you could burn your music to, and you were limited to 5 devices (computers running iTunes, iPods
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I disagree with this. I pirated everything when I was a teenager/in college because I didn’t have money. Now the only thing I pirate is the occasional movie I want to watch that isn’t on Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max or Amazon Prime
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The “theft” happens on both sides. I stopped pirating music when Spotify came to the US. It’s proof that people will pay for things if A) the price is reasonable and B) consumption is convenient. Why? Pirating content is inconvenient. Popco
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Location: Jacksonville, FL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#, SQL, Python, AWS, Azure Resume (pretty): https://drive.proton.me/urls/394W02Q91W#GO44CL6KB2e3 Resume (ATS-friendly): https://d
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Ban took effect a couple weeks ago
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
It’ll be interesting to see how long these GPUs are in use, AND what the secondary market will look like in 5 years. Will NVidia shaft Microsoft and Meta like they shaft consumers re: driver support and other artificial limitations/pla
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
That ban only took effect around Thanksgiving (late November 2023).
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
This article touches on A LOT. I would say the focus is on why software projects are so large and complex. I think about Fallout 4, a remarkably buggy and inefficient piece of software; I think about the React + Redux web app that a previou
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I mean I think it comes down to semantics. “Kill switch” to me implies the NSA or FBI or my local PD can disable my car for things like unpaid parking tickets or an expired registration or insurance. What is in the bill sounds like some AI
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
What most people don’t seem to realize is that there aren’t only language changes to contend with, but framework changes as well. This line is further blurred in language-framework pairs like C# and .NET, where (as a web dev) you’re pretty
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
There are couple of entities who predict what the fed will do at their next quarterly meeting. I think St Louis Fed is one of them? I don’t know that “traders” can ever be said to have a consensus about anything.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
My company called them the DevOps Team
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Yeah that was not allowed. We started off managing our own DevOps in our own AWS region even, separate from the rest of the company. Eventually the DevOps team mandated we move to the same region as everyone else, and then soon after that t
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Thanks for the detailed info. I’m aware the bar is low when it comes to the entry-level certs, and that’s why I’d hope AWS SAs (the free kind) have to pass one or two.

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