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by splonk 7y ago
Stacks are reset to 10k at the beginning of each hand, so they can use every hand to train a single model with the same starting state.
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by splonk 7y ago
I was a member of the class and got a settlement. It's been quite some time so I don't recall the details exactly, but I think the settlement was divided through some combination of the amount of time you were employed through th
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by splonk 8y ago
I would assume this refers to the prohibition on eating meat with dairy.
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by splonk 8y ago
"emotional regulation" is not exactly a term I would use to describe the majority of professional poker players, although I think it is more prevalent within the better ones. Patience and discipline are probably present within an
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by splonk 8y ago
Yeah, the important thing is to ignore any number you ever see in a headline about poker winnings, because it basically just means gross revenues. It says nothing at all about whether someone actually made money. (Okay, so it's prett
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by splonk 8y ago
Depending on whether you're filing as a professional or not, you may be paying self-employment tax. But in general, gambling winnings of that nature (big tournament scores) are pretty likely to put you in a high tax bracket and/o
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by splonk 8y ago
Trolltunga is a very popular travel photo. Here's some random site showing what it looks like on Instagram, and what the lineup for the Instagram photo looks like. It was pretty funny the first time I saw a crowd photo as opposed to
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by splonk 8y ago
I can't speak much towards Zoom's quality at videoconferencing relative to their competitors (I think it's bad, but I've never had any VC solution that I thought was good), but as a chat client, using it with the combina
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by splonk 8y ago
Let me just start by saying I am entirely on the restaurant's side in this, and believe that this just another attempt at vendor lock-in from OpenTable. Restaurants have been fighting for customer control with OT for a long time, and
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by splonk 8y ago
Correct, but this is being slowly phased out in some areas, particularly in the EU due to regulations. e.g. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2d2ab9fe-a2a5...
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by splonk 8y ago
They're aware of this, and are in some stage of building out a business travel product. I believe part of their product roadmap includes identifying/segregating some of their more reliable inventory that's more suitable for
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by splonk 8y ago
I like this process, although I'm not as consistent as I'd like to be about answering in comments rather than in the review tool. As an addendum to this, I have a general rule for code review: the developer doesn't get to pu
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by splonk 8y ago
Everything I've heard is that it's incredibly difficult to grow commercially. That said, there's a company in Half Moon Bay that's doing it. I can't say I've tried enough authentic Japanese wasabi to make a r
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by splonk 8y ago
Honestly, if this is even vaguely usable, it's going to replace my phone and my tablet, simply by reducing the screen size for both while still having some modern hardware behind it. I find 5" phones to be just slightly too large
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by splonk 8y ago
I used to work in this field. The goal is not to create something unbeatable. The goal is to make something difficult enough that it becomes more cost effective for a fraudster to attack someone else instead. Acquiring thousands of credi
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by splonk 8y ago
"The Services are offered only to residents of the United States. The Services must be primarily used in the United States and are not intended for extended international use. Further, the Services are designed for use predominantly wi
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by splonk 8y ago
I've been skipping through Deadspin in my RSS feed for years now, but I was really pleasantly surprised at how readable and in depth the chess articles were when they popped up (speaking as someone who hasn't played a competitive
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by splonk 8y ago
Try searching for "amusia". A long time ago I took a test at http://www.delosis.com/listening/summary.html . It's been down for years now, but some of the results/discussion/links are still up
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by splonk 8y ago
Pretty much any modern point of sale system (e.g., anything on a tablet) is going to be separating out the tips correctly for accounting purposes. If anything, you should be _more_ sure that the employees are getting their full tip amounts
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by splonk 8y ago
There's definitely some research that suggests that tonal languages have some relation to ability to distinguish absolute pitch. http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/pdf/MP-2004-21_339-356.pdf > The findings from these thre
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by splonk 8y ago
I had a choir teacher who told us a story about cheating that assignment by learning the pitch of the hum of the fluorescent lights in their classroom.
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by splonk 8y ago
This is configurable in the point of sale system. In my experience at local places it seems relatively evenly split between pretax and posttax. Not clear if there's a consistent default across all the various POS systems. For example
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by splonk 8y ago
> you can't search you own posts They keep moving the functionality, but I can still get to it on desktop. Search for something, "Posts" tab, change "From Everyone" dropdown to "From just you".
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by splonk 8y ago
Looks like the likely top prize on these is 50 GBP. From https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/for-gambling-businesse... : "What is the maximum stake/prize on an SWP? As you don’t need a licence or permit there is
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by splonk 8y ago
For non-Brits, "The Newtonian Casino" is probably more commonly known as "The Eudaemonic Pie". It's about a group in the 70s using electronic devices to clock roulette wheels to predict the general area of the whee
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by splonk 8y ago
Related: there are various bots for HQ Trivia that do similar things that have come up on HN before. Here's one with a bit of a writeup: https://medium.com/@tobymellor/hq-trivia-using-bots-to-win-m... My general
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by splonk 8y ago
Note that this appears to be in the UK, given the branding of the machine and the poster's comments. I'm not sure what the legality is there, but it sounds like it's a less regulated form of low stakes gambling, so maybe it&
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by splonk 8y ago
(I work in the corporate travel industry, not for Airbnb) It's definitely not a big thing in business travel yet, but at least part of that is because business travel is a slow market to change (partly because of expense integrations,
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by splonk 8y ago
> In general hotels are more expensive when booked directly and not through an aggregator This is because the aggregators have "most favored nation" clauses in their deals with hotels that forbid hotels for undercutting the agg
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by splonk 8y ago
Simple rule for using TripAdvisor in any even vaguely touristy place: Ignore the top ~20 or so restaurants/hotels when sorted by rating. You can pretty much guarantee that at a minimum, they're soliciting reviews from a pool of s

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