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by pliny 7y ago
The way the game is presented in the article is that the low payout numbers are fixed (so a 3 match on a given rolldown game pays out $50 regardless of how many winners there are). This is consistent with the state lotteries I know. In this
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by pliny 7y ago
If the ticket has an expected positive return for the buyer, then the state must be losing money.
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Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted to Know(slatestarcodex.com)
3 points by pliny 7y ago|1 comments
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by pliny 8y ago
>Inviting the government to arbitrate what qualifies as “harmful” speech is a legal and ethical minefield, while establishing a third-party system to do the same would amount to offloading corporate responsibility. There’s no reason to e
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by pliny 8y ago
There were a lot of better quality results that aren't reported from this study: http://advances.sciencemag.org/highwire/filestream/211174/fi... Instead that article talks about some p=0.041/0.049 (
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by pliny 8y ago
>On the other hand, Silicon Valley money is made in California and draws on California services. Employees commute to work on taxpayer-funded roads and many studied at taxpayer-funded schools. And one extreme example: When a gunman shot
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by pliny 8y ago
I know that 8200 veterans[0] are well represented in the Israeli startup/hi tech scene, I'm asking for a source for the other direction which I have never heard of: 8200 (or other intelligence units) veterans going back to the arm
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by pliny 8y ago
>What I find odd is that their staffers may join the company, and leave for the military/intelligence agency again after less than a year What is the source for this?
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by pliny 8y ago
Whatever answer you get, make sure you can use your losses to cover some of your tax burden from your wins, otherwise even in the scenario you describe you lose a third or half to the government (depending on how the income is declared and
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by pliny 8y ago
Trees are made of carbon, humans are not made of oxygen (humans are also made of carbon).
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by pliny 8y ago
The control group is people born in Israel from 1911 to 1945, which would make them mostly Ashkenazi since most Sephardic immigration occured after this period.
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by pliny 8y ago
Wikipedia (de) lists Ehud as an Israeli(-American) computer scientist and this may be the source of the problem.
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by pliny 8y ago
Within a year: First astronaut travelling to GEO, to physically reset a satellite with a broken ssh config.
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by pliny 8y ago
Maybe I haven't seen enough large-scale corporate failures (and the associated damage control, which is how it seems you are characterizing this post), but it feels like you're making this prediction on the basis of not enough dat
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by pliny 8y ago
That's a prediction, but why do you think that's how it'll turn out?
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What we’re talking about when we talk about inflation(themoneyillusion.com)
1 points by pliny 8y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 8y ago
Desktop version: https://theintercept.com/2018/10/21/kentucky-pensions-crisis...
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by pliny 8y ago
>The counterargument is that censoring political speech is decidedly indecent regardless of anyone's intentions This is (as I understand it) a deontological, rather than a consequential, argument. So that cannot really be a 'co
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by pliny 8y ago
>You provide individual, one-on-one full time tutoring to each student So, at a modest 2 hours of instruction per day, and assuming people spend on average 12 years in education and 48 years in the workforce, you need at minimum for 1&#x
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A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory management(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
1 points by pliny 8y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 8y ago
Agree in spirit, but in the case of Google/Alphabet there is somewhere for the buck to stop: AFAIK Larry + Sergei (+ maybe Eric?) control more than half of the equity in terms of voting power, so if they want too promote their principl
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by pliny 8y ago
Click on 'web' underneath the title.
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Forging Islamic science(aeon.co)
2 points by pliny 8y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 8y ago
>The fact that they show people's content without giving them page views (in a world where page views are how you get significant amounts of money, not to mention subscription opportunities) is a conscious decision to implement a fe
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by pliny 8y ago
https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/46507.pdf
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by pliny 8y ago
These are not the vizier cookies.
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by pliny 8y ago
While many cities are on a coast, very few of those are built within 1m of sea level, which the 'worst case' (by 2100) projected in AR5. Loss of coastal cities over 100 years is not apocalytic, that is a time scale where people ca
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by pliny 8y ago
The units are different, it would be like saying that my car is half as wide as it is fast.
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by pliny 8y ago
>“Apple’s $1 trillion cap is equal to about 5 percent of the total gross domestic product of the United States in 2018,” said David Kass, professor of finance at the University of Maryland. “That puts this company in perspective.” The co
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by pliny 8y ago
The yubikey version of this works with phones, you can plug it in if your phone has the appropriate usb port, and it theoretically supports nfc and bluetooth but those rarely seem to work for me. I'm not sure if the google version also

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