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by jib 11y ago
I don't think there is any correlation between exciting/boring and profitable. Index funds ar one of the more profitable strategies (as they don't involve paying some guy a ton of money to play lotto for you). They are certai
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by jib 11y ago
Rands has some good articles about culture. http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-culture-chart/ It isn't about the statements (our core values sound dumb and Like a slogan when read out tbh) but it is about
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by jib 11y ago
I dislike contact states personally. They are mostly noise. People set them, don't set them, forget they set them, had some program set them etc. For me it is fairly simple - usually texts in my company are higher urgency, location agn
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by jib 11y ago
The commodity names really puts me off. You're targeting a luxury-ish market, and you're advertising things under commodity names. I dont go around thinking I want to buy a "BEAUTIFUL WHITE MODERN/CONTEMPORARY FAUX LEATH
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by jib 11y ago
Austin isn't Texas though. Austin and Paris sounds characteristic for who he wants to be? And nothing (or rather no one) really changes in Tolkiens books. I think that is a fair point. People ARE (good, evil, shadowy, treacherous, wise
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by jib 11y ago
Poker (in any casino) is raked in some way, either by seat fee or by pot rake, so the game is stacked against you. You can certainly overcome that edge by being more skilled than your opponents (which is a nice difference from most other ca
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by jib 11y ago
Harrington on Hold'em is a good starting place for (tournament) poker. It's an old book but it teaches solid fundamentals.
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by jib 11y ago
I think this is the most significant point. Filler material doesn't work anymore. I can and will watch reruns of old content rather than unexciting new content or filler stuff like commentary. I will gladly pay a premium for someone to
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by jib 11y ago
Really? I've had a very bad experience with the college pass. I will try again this year though as they have a service I really want (fast on demand cover of 80%+ of all the games).
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by jib 11y ago
ESPN are atm really bad at online. I want to give them money to watch college football (it doesn't air on normal TV in Europe obv except the odd game). Their price is ok (20 euro a month or so) but their app is completely broken. On iP
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by jib 11y ago
And same with people who I interacted with... QWCTF - Capten, Foureau, TwinTurbo, Pimp all the other Synergy and Lords guys, Nii! (We were the worst and nicest), Skalman and many more... Utopia - All the Malaysians from HaLL, the swedes fro
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by jib 11y ago
I think I have stories from all my games. Utopia - plotting against the 4-500 people strong enemy alliance by building a network of 2-300 loosely connect people with various interests, balancing various alliances and allegiances, trading to
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by jib 11y ago
I think the age thing is relevant, but more as "everyone has a few early experiences they anchor and way future experiences against". I'll always compare games to pirates, UO, EQ, privateer, d2 and qwctf because they were my
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by jib 11y ago
I disagree on it being the only game. There are people I played EQ with from 10 years ago who I am still in touch with and would consider friends, and we spent a lot of time in the game talking about just about everything. I also had the sa
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by jib 11y ago
I played UO 98-99 on Europa. Back then I enjoyed being able to play a game where I could do smithing almost exclusively. Just hanging out with other people who enjoyed a very small aspect of the game, and being able to service others. There
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by jib 11y ago
All you can eat isnt all you can eat. It is throttled after 15Gb. There is no mobile options in Ireland with decent caps. Living here and in a place that has ADSL1 and 4G available I tried finding a plan that would me actually consume media
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by jib 11y ago
They are saying that the variation in tests can be lowered by including covariant variables in selection criteria. Let's say one product of many I sell a "drivers license test kit" and somehow know the age of my site visitors
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by jib 11y ago
It's related to jackpots, so no. Lets say a lottery is set up to pay out 60% of money in over a year, but those payouts are done by 40% 9 weeks out of 10, and 240% the 10th week. If you only play the lottery on the 10th week, then your
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by jib 11y ago
As a non-american, this is really weird to me. I grew up around plenty of guns at my friends - they were moose hunting rifles mostly. And they were under lock and key unless actively used for hunting, with guns locked in one location, ammun
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by jib 11y ago
Reddit is mostly entertainment for me. I read /r/cfb for a good overview of what is going on in college football. I glance through /r/nfl to get an idea of nfl and when I want extra entertainment I read the frontpage. T
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by jib 11y ago
Well it is a good story, right? Like Wizards of the Coast's really expensive table: http://www.peteradkison.com/blog-entry-3-wizards-of-the-coas...
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by jib 11y ago
I dont have one. There are some people who have some good traits and habits that I would like to acquire, but I dont get the role model thing. To me it is about process rather than person. "This guy has a great way of doing X" rat
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by jib 12y ago
Swift have one of the biggest moats in the world. They are in all banks already, other businesses are not, they are already trusted and they sell both the service and the hw to access their service. So they can charge a lot for their servic
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by jib 12y ago
But that is even worse, right? That is paying a fixed price for someone to gamble for you. If you look at it objectively, a more sane pricing model would be that you get a discount on the flat fees compared to what you would pay for a non-m
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by jib 12y ago
But the important part isn't annual return, it's annual return compared to similarly risked options. Which are in the 7-8% range for the last 10 years depending on when you start counting. I'm paying you to beat the average -
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by jib 12y ago
Except with a mortgage you're not running a risk that next year you will suddenly have an extra 50k added to your mortgage. Actively managed money has a very nice angle going. They can charge money to actively manage your funds, while
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by jib 12y ago
The argument is they are gambling with just a downside, so why are they not just buying indexed funds, right? If you lose money on actively managed funds, you lose the money. If you win money on actively managed funds, you get a small part
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by jib 12y ago
Here's my view, based on 10 odd years in various CS roles. I think there's confusion about good/bad customer experience and what that means. Great staff doing great interactions is important, but if you focus just on that you
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by jib 12y ago
It is a stupid EU law: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
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by jib 12y ago
I studied to be a chemical engineer at one point (with engineering physics, but ok). Of the guys in my class, and wildly guessing, I would say that less than 50% work with something chemical related, mostly either in pulp, oil or fuel cells

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