lurkshark

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by lurkshark 2y ago
Thank you for sharing this. The gambling world has always been a fascination of mine and I would’ve loved to have been a bit older during the heyday of offshore bookies.
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by lurkshark 2y ago
A caveat here with the stock market comparison, although there are some betting exchanges like Matchbook, most betting is done with fixed odds. That is, the book isn’t letting the market set the odds in the sense of trying to balance their
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by lurkshark 2y ago
The strategy this paper seems to be describing is well known as “chasing steam”. You keep an eye on the odds at a “sharp” book, one that’s good at tracking which clients of theirs often win and adjust their odds accordingly, then find books
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by lurkshark 2y ago
Yeah it’s extremely sketchy but legal. Sports betting is treated as a game offered on the casino’s terms and they get to choose who and for how much they’ll play with. You can see it in the financials of the big companies. Where the theoret
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by lurkshark 2y ago
Sometimes I wonder if you framed it differently would it be more appealing to tech workers. Like if there was a startup that negotiates on behalf of employees for salary, benefits, remote vs in-office, etc. using collective influence as mor
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by lurkshark 2y ago
The company seems to be in rough condition. Say they go bankrupt and an ad-tech data broker buys their assets. Now DraftKings can laser focus their ads to folks genetically predisposed to addiction.
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Seven-Segment Display(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lurkshark 2y ago|2 comments
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Israel investigates possible trading knowledge ahead of Oct 7 Hamas attack(reuters.com)
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Journalist Accused of Hacking Fox News Says Clips Were Accessed Legally(cjr.org)
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Appendix X: How “slot” machines work in WA state [pdf](wsgc.wa.gov)
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by lurkshark 3y ago
Dennis Montgomery, the man that sold Lindell the “evidence” in the first place, is a fascinating character. He has been pulling con after con, including $30MM from the Department of Defense, with seemingly no consequences. https:/&#x2
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by lurkshark 3y ago
I get the point you’re trying to convey but - at least in the US - you’re legally required to make donations to political candidates publicly anyway, so this isn’t really a regression over the status quo.
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Uncaught exception causes $3k Vercel bill(twitter.com)
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by lurkshark 4y ago
There’s a great episode of the Criminal podcast on this topic https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-138-starlight-tours-4-17-...
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MSG Isn’t Unhealthy(rightasrain.uwmedicine.org)
7 points by lurkshark 4y ago|1 comments
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Using Node-RED as an open-source alternative to Zapier(coderevue.net)
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Deploying Node-RED to Google App Engine(coderevue.net)
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Offshore sportsbook Bovada has been offline since yesterday morning(twitter.com)
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Right-Wing Media Seeks to Discredit Facebook Whistleblower(mediaite.com)
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Hackers allegedly gained access to a large dataset belonging to Epik(twitter.com)
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by lurkshark 5y ago
SoundCloud's Roshi database is built on LWW-Element-Sets, but doesn't have an explicitly CRDT-based API. It looks like they no longer use it internally, however. https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/roshi-a-
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Mike Lindell's “packet captures” are garbage data provided by serial con-man(washingtontimes.com)
73 points by lurkshark 5y ago|101 comments
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CNN Vault NFTs(vault.cnn.com)
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