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by jegutman 11y ago
Here's the simplest explanation. Neither should be illegal, they made a law that explicitly banned one and not the other. Also there's fundamentally a difference between playing against other players and playing against the house
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by jegutman 11y ago
For years the government has been encouraging _____ only for a news article never to be written because it dramatically helped the outcomes of real people. Don't forget that the things that make the news have a huge selection bias.
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by jegutman 11y ago
Here's an experiment: Go enter some giant free-roll and a $10 tournament with a huge guaranteed prize pool. I would bet that the top score (not the average) in the free-roll will have higher score. Now take the points that each playe
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Sentencing Overhaul Proposed in Senate with Bipartisan Backing(nytimes.com)
54 points by jegutman 11y ago|12 comments
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PokerStars, Full Tilt Get OK for New Jersey Online Gambling(abcnews.go.com)
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by jegutman 11y ago
I'm skeptical this will end up doing enough, but any move in the right direction in this issue is a big deal.
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Sentencing Overhaul Proposed in Senate with Bipartisan Backing(nytimes.com)
1 points by jegutman 11y ago|1 comments
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PokerStars, Full Tilt Get OK for New Jersey Online Gambling(abcnews.go.com)
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by jegutman 11y ago
We're all part of the sharing economy. You share your labor with your employer. /s
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by jegutman 11y ago
So you're right there's a lot of low quality stuffy on Buzzfeed, but also some amazing pieces of journalism. Business Insider is at NY Post levels most of the time. I can't even think of something I read on Business Insider
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by jegutman 11y ago
The costs and benefits of things change over time and hence the stable outcomes can change a lot over time. It's only in the last few 100 years that anything resembling a "job" where you sit at a desk all day existed. 1000s
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by jegutman 11y ago
N is an integer multiple of N. The integer multiples of N are ... -3N -2N -1N 0 1N 2N 3N... much like the integers are ... -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 ...
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by jegutman 11y ago
Depends on the company. PR is a proportional thing. If the CEO of a company is caught on video killing kittens that can kill 50% of a $100,000,000 company or 50% of $1,000,000 company. Public relations / branding is proportional in
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by jegutman 11y ago
Yea, and why not just look at the actual history of FB where they were quite easily able to pay for server costs at an early point with ads. It's possible they hit a point where they were losing money, but 100% at any point past the v
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by jegutman 11y ago
I think 0.4% was just for the weekend worth of work. Like just think of it as everybody vested that much over the weekend so the company still had 96.4% unvested equity with very unclear ownership. That makes it seem a little more reasona
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by jegutman 11y ago
"None of those provide any real safeguards". Don't you feel like this is an overstatement? Like if Microsoft commits a fraud I can sue Microsoft. Like yes it's possible that in the future these safeguards wont' b
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by jegutman 11y ago
So first the fed cut rates and many people called them unprincipled and we would have run away inflation "just around the corner" and they were shown to be quite wrong. Now these same people are calling for raising rates what tra
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by jegutman 11y ago
Also the waste of talent argument is a red herring. People who say that assume the alternative is no financial system in their heads. It takes many fewer people to run many HFT firms than to run one JPM prop trading floor which is the act
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by jegutman 11y ago
You don't even need to tag faces. It finds all the faces that have been in your photos and picks one for each to be the search "face" for that person.
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by jegutman 11y ago
Can we just have a giant open-source religion with a mission like: "Really useful software should be open source if possible" and then have various "chapters" that individually manage the projects? So we could have the
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by jegutman 11y ago
Or they have high fixed costs.
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by jegutman 11y ago
But I can't get "waze" directions in google maps (where it has me taking awesomely crazy routes). I also don't get notifications about cars on the side of the road which can be quite useful in certain areas.
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by jegutman 11y ago
It will be so obvious when big bird has an iPhone 3g and a nexus 5.
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by jegutman 11y ago
Have they really done that though?
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by jegutman 11y ago
So I think this is a good model for consumers, but probably not great from a sales perspective. Think of the broadcasters as charging for "selling" their companies. I hate cable companies, but still worth thinking about why they
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by jegutman 11y ago
Reminds me of this from Dave Chapelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdim8hWR44
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by jegutman 11y ago
Yea, I saw some of the runs during Summer Games Done Quickly that involved some attempts at RNG manipulation although it was not obvious what was happening at all to me watching at home.
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by jegutman 11y ago
I'll buy it from you for $20 if you want to get out while the market is tanking.
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by jegutman 11y ago
I don't know, seems like access is a big deal. I'm sure Buffett could get a meeting with any presidential candidate he wanted to because of his celebrity. Me? Probably not for good reason. However, if I had a super PAC with $5
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by jegutman 11y ago
I know it's crazy that companies with 10k+ employees want some agree of conformity (read: predictability) out of their workforce. It's not the CEO of these organizations saying "we can't hire you because of this piece o

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