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Hum... I just thought that we rarely see here a tech showdown from ad companies, or employees (It might be because they'd
be bullied to hell), for what we know they could have the most impressive anti-DDoS tech in the world.
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I found the idea that it could be always listening to you creepy at first...but if you think about it your mobile phone, landline phone, computer microphone and more could be hijacked to always listen to you as well so there isn't much difference.
Right now the site seems to be down...

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If you want to stop being dependent on anti-depressants (and their side-effects) while stopping depression at the same time, you may try a normal dose of LSD (after becoming a domain expert and testing the substance you have acquired). Complement this with daily practice of mindful meditation and you have a good chance to succeed. Also, you need to make sure to permanently change whatever lifestyle caused your depression.
I tried the new Jenkins update, it's quite buggy at the moment. I am going to stick to GoCD for now.
Your problem might be disk IO speed related. How fast is your storage? Most browsers still do trash a lot of disk IO even if you have plenty of memory available. For whatever reason it seems like OSX is way more prone to having performance problems due to slow disk IO. I have plenty of RAM, CPU and GPU so whenever I see a performance hiccup I know it's time to clear some space off my SSD. Performance of my (several year old, third party) SSD goes off a cliff when it has less than 15% or so free space available. If I get it back to 20% free space it's back to smooth sailing again.
Seems like, from the excerpt you quote, the relevant few words are "...or knowingly to substitute and use in any such game cards..."

But he didn't substitute them, did he? The cards were already in play and he noticed and took advantage of an irregularity.
Given Rust's focus on zero runtime overhead, I'm surprised that the static dispatch case requires more awkward syntax. People will write code using the simpler, more familiar syntax and incur the dynamic dispatch overhead.
> some dumbass hospitalist read my chart wrong

But couldn't this also be explained by said person lacking enough sleep?
It magically gets the free hydrogen from a bearded white man in the sky...

Then you add platinum which you get from the contract with the devil.
I have a few problems with this.

The law DOES make a distinction based on who did the marking. Your quote clearly states that it refers to people playing the game, which would exclude the casino.

The cards also weren't marked. The backs were identical. The dealer selectively rotating some cards is what made some identifiable.

The law also says that the player must "substitute and use" marked cards. The casino made the substitution. The cards were marked or tampered with.

Moreover, if this interpretation is correct, and the game is simply invalidated, then it is far more exploitable. In the case of any kind of marked card a player could simply bet huge (randomly) and if they lose invoke this law, invalidating the game.
Agreed. Ivey and Sun played by the house's rules, the house lost, and now they're trying their damndest to change the rules ex post facto into something that suits them. I find this a brilliant exploit of baccarat and I smile when the house gets pwned by something they didn't quite expect within their own rules.

Borgata should probably be focusing their ire at Gemaco, not at Sun. Her skill is what won this, and I hope that in the end she gets her "revenge".
Yes, they are expensive, but they are very precisely cut and they do not deform with the time. You will not be disappointed and your kid will have a lot of fun.
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I didn't say that well. I mean, non-zero everywhere. There can be bumps with most of the support, but integrating |psi|^2 over any region gives a non-zero result, if mostly below the order of, say 10^-100 outside of your two bumps. That is, from a probabilistic point of view, it can be discounted without a thought, but from a "this is a real world" it does not seem to me to be so easy to discard.

That is to say, where is the magnitude of the wave function being used in this interpretation?
He did request that the specific cards be substituted for whatever the regular ones are, and that according to the impossible rules on being "identical" (see http://www.flushdraw.net/news/borgata-fires-back-at-cardmake...) they were known to be effectively marked.

I enjoy "Robin Hood" stories as much as the next person, but if he had walked in with his own deck of cards and asked to use them (and the casino agreed) is the fault with the casino or the player?
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Okay, the full story: I guess the fuller story is that I had taken AP Java in high school. I took one CS class in college, but I dropped it to prioritize other classes.

I also got help from my younger brother, who was graduating with a degree in CS. We had a half dozen skype conversations that helped me get started before the night class started.

The night class was 9 months long, but I got my first job about 2/3 through it. I told my instructor that I was bored as shit at work, and had saved up enough that I could try being an unpaid intern for a month in the hopes that I'd get a real job. My instructor sent out some emails, I had five interviews, and one of them offered me a paying job! So I took it.

You're right that I had a decent background for it, and that my brother helped me. But I also really wanted it, and I was bored to tears at my job, and it kept me motivated.

Everyone can make decisions about their careers and study the trade-offs. And we should encourage that, rather than letting them fall into learned helplessness! Look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/56xkrd/how_to_pick_...
See my other note below. He requested these specific cards, and that the dealer adjust specific cards, and that they use an automatic shuffler (so that they didn't change order). He may not have done so directly, but he caused them to be substituted which is likely more than enough (IANAL, but I deal with too many).
> the "fundamental purpose of legalized gambling" is for the house to always win.

Is this controversial? I assumed everyone knew that the casinos have an edge on every game they spread?
Well, it is debatable, if it is good.

For some it is obviously not, but for others it is a good default.

What's bad is that it cannot be changed. That is not debatable.
Apparently they have! (Suing Gemaco for defective cards: http://www.flushdraw.net/news/borgata-fires-back-at-cardmake...)
Shopping for items that pop into my head.

"Alexa, order a _____."

"I found 7 items matching ___..." and proceeds to go through the list.
> EROEI is incapable to take those into account

EROEI is capable of it, but you must be willing to do it. Why don't you figure out, in your example world, what makes the land for the reactor so expensive? Eventually, there is going to be an energy cost to having so much land dedicated for it (either that or there is only a finite amount of land that you're willing to use - which is akin to infinite cost, as I already explained in my previous comments); and you omit that from your EROEI calculation.

(Also technically speaking, in your example, I could build more reactors next to each other, so I would need less land, it's only a fixed cost, but that's not so important here.)

> But there is no guarantee the other way round, a project with decent EROEI can have completely unfeasible ROI, so I still not understand why I should care about EROEI. It just produces zero value over ROI (with the usual disclaimer of correct prices)

I disagree, the same is true vice versa (if you exchange EROEI and ROI), if you correctly calculate the energy cost needed. EROEI is just ROI in different units, and all the same advantages and disadvantages apply (that's why I predicated my post on you accepting ROI). So whatever disadvantage you see in EROEI I can find analogue of (and I did in fact) in ROI.

But the point of using EROEI is, nature cannot be fooled - if a process has a given EROEI, then nobody can cheat that number. But with ROI, individual investors can still cheat other people (society at large), if they have reason to use incorrectly priced ROI (it is incorrectly priced from society's perspective, but from their perspective it's correct), for example when subsidies are involved.

> But if you want to think in terms of all means of production, not just some arbitrarily chosen ones, you end up with ROI.

You are not doing it correctly for EROEI - you're not assigning price in energy for those additional means of production (as pjc50 already noted).
I think the strongest argument against congestion pricing is the cost of infrastructure to collect it.

All the other arguments apply equally well to other consumables that are normally priced, like food and energy. Consumption taxes are inherently regressive, and poor people consume more of their income than their rich, but the solution is not to simply price consumables at $0.

IMO, the burden should be to show why roads are such a special good that they should always be free, regardless of externalities.

You're right that mass transit should be a part of the equation. Singapore is a city where this works well -- mass transit is (relatively) cheap, universal, and efficient. Car ownership is ridiculously expensive due to taxes, and congestion pricing is high (around $15 at rush hour) [1]. This prices road travel appropriately, as a luxury good in a dense and crowded metropolis, and pushes all normal transportation needs onto mass transit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Road_Pricing
I know this may be naive, but what does the officer part entail or mean?
Virtualbox with a Ubuntu Desktop install on it, virtual dual monitor setup to match my physical dual monitors, 256 video memory and a decent set of my Alienware's CPU and Memory assigned to it. Feels native :)
In a month, patriotism will return to being a word, and unpatriotic actions will be routinely villified. And not some bipartisan concoction of it, just a historical action of supporting the current regime of the United States or being vilified if you don't. X Supporter will be resigned to a meme on Wikipedia or probably redirect straight to the aforementioned term by nuance of American patriotism meaning support of the current regime.
wouldn't that same law then negate any and ALL winnings the casino has ever had from Baccarat, because anyone who has ever lost could come forward and counter sue them for breach of the same contract and there'd be no way to prove one way or the other, they'd have to nullify out all past/present games. I think it's best not to set a legal precedent, and for the casino to take their hit, and tighten up security of the game moving forward.
>As a game designer, I find casino "games" frustrating

It's funny -- I'm as vulnerable as anyone else to a million addictive game mechanics that build on the same impulses that make gambling addictive. But actual real-life casino slot machines just don't work. I need to be like, evaluating the loot drop's fire resistance on a new helmet or whatever for it to be addictive. When you just push a button over and over again with no actual input it's just too obvious you are doing nothing.
Portable devices go through a heck of a lot more stresses than desktops. I've gone through my share if issues. At least half the time Apple takes care of it without issue. I have a 2011 MBP and a month or two ago my hard drive cable went bad. It was $20 on Amazon[1] and easy to replace. Apple products are so ubiquitous I feel like spare parts are easier to find. Maybe there are PC equivalents, but I can't imagine ordering a hard drive cable for a 5yo laptop off Amazon Prime.

I also avoid 1st gen models and usually wait a few weeks/months under the suspicion production issues are fixed.

[1] http://a.co/21dD7Iw
I just installed Opera 12.17 to verify your claims. I was very disappointed. This reminds me of people that say their old Nokia phones were better than the smartphones of today. Funny how time distorts things.
It depends on where you are but if you are in a hot country you may have been able to fix your network issues with a $5 laptop cooler. A lot of the wireless routers do not have enough cooling for hot environments. My cheap hack that usually fixes problem is a cheap USB cooling mat that I put under the router and plug it into the USB port of the router. Almost always improves the reliability.
Ok, let's get technical.

The (a) part of that law is written for casinos, not players, as it refers to dealing and operating games. The requirement is that they do this knowingly. The casino didn't know.

The operation of this game did not in any way deceive the public. No player was tricked. The operation of the game also did NOT alter the result of the game. The same side (banker/player) would have one irrespective of the rotated cards, as the rotation has no affect on gameplay and the outcomes are deterministic (no choices during play like in blackjack).

All that was changed as a result of the extra knowledge was which side to bet on. The game itself was not affected in any way.
Web programming in C and CGI is alive and well:

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Having seen a number of cases like this in Vegas growing up I doubt the judge will be overturned on appeal. Just like they would fine the casino if the casino noticed the player tended to lose more given some situation and the casino created a circumstance for that situation to occur more often. Changing the odds on either side of the equation is frowned upon by the judiciary.
So, incidentally I noticed a couple days ago that Firefox on Android handles > 99 tabs with a special icon.

I found that quite amusing..

http://m.imgur.com/ZmGsWRo
Engineers love to talk about legal issues as though they were lawyers. It turns out that with very few exceptions engineers are not lawyers. Now, saying things that aren't true in a discoverable medium is basically never a good idea; but drawing legal conclusions in one without having any real idea if you're right is the kind of bad idea that can cost your company a bunch of money. I'm sure the policy is aimed at cutting that kind of problem, rather than stopping legitimate whistleblowing etc (which is protected anyway).
In that case anyone who lost a game of baccarat (or any card game) played with those type of cards at anytime in NJ has a case against the casino and could sue to get the money back because the contract was illegal. I wonder if those are standard cards used at the casino ... they do offer them as souvenirs so it seems like they might be. If they are used by the casino or other casinos for games, that's probably thousands of games and potential court cases. Sounds like a class action lawsuit actually.
Not according to TIOBE where it's been declining year over year.
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There is a huge difference: You voluntarily give away this information with this device while on the others there is work involved from a 3rd party. Most of the time you won't be worth it.

While on Echo, you are just a part of the Quality System and Eris knows what they'll do with all that information in the future. Algorithms and AI is there to sort it out.

I find it creepy but what creeps me even more out is people who don't find it creepy.
Incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Sensitive_Networking
Last time I checked using Google Services was still an option when using an Android phone.
Roll your own crypto, but for the love of god don't release it.
putting on a record or CD would take 5 seconds, and work 100% of the time

That's not my experience at all; the damn scratches in CDs made me switch to an MP3 player as soon as I could afford one, back in the early 2000s.

Streaming audio is still shitty, that's true, but MPD reading off of a local disk actually works reliably.
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Updated and testing.

Thanks!
As I mentioned in another reply, the particular clause referenced above is not what was used. However, your interpretation that the game was "invalidated" is correct.

This is not exploitable because it is within the casinos power to not use marked cards. Further, if the casino did use marked cards, and the player won; then the casino could invoke the same law and invalidate the winning.

This is essentially what happened in Golden Nugget v. Gemaco (the main precedent cited in this case); where the casino lost big as a result of using non-shuffled decks. Despite the fact that this was clearly the casino's fault, the court ruled that (regardless of fault) because the game was no longer authorized under the Casino Control Act, it was illegal, and any contract based on it was void.
Updated and testing...

Thanks!
According to the link, the control group test is diminishing in use, and if the employee has significant influence over the subject of the question (as a whistleblower or member of the team in question would), then they are in the control group.

The only way to really get screwed over by these tests would be to instate a "no emailing the lawyers about corporate wrongdoing" policy (causing your employees to fail all three tests in the link).

Of course, the lawsuit alleges that Google did exactly that. I wonder if the courts will (imho correctly) strip a large percentage of their internal legal communications of attorney/client privilege.

Time to grab the popcorn.
Response to your edit.

I still think this was the wrong opinion. If the cards are not shuffled that is a clear violation of the rules of the game. No such violation occurred here.

There are no such rules about card orientation because usually casinos use ones with symmetrical backs.
>Unfortunately, modern browsers are so stupid that they reload all the tabs when you restart them. Which takes ages if you have a hundred of tabs. Opera was sane: it did not reload a tab unless you asked for it. It just reopened everything from cache.

Firefox also loads suspended tabs from cache. It reloads them(on first switch to tab), but no data is downloaded from server.
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> does modern technology suck just for me

To try to counter potential selection bias I'll give my boring answer: I would be really pissed if those things kept happening to me, so you're not particularly intolerant, but they don't. I get hard to fix wifi problems maybe once a year.
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I guess that point hinges on whether asking the casino to use a particular type of card is legally equivalent to Ivey substituting.
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2) is about operating or exposing a game with marked cards. So it forbids the house to use those cards, I don't read it as a criminal act for the player to play against a house which uses such cards.

Also I think b. is about the house: it is about owning or using such cards. The cards where not Iphy's, the casino was the owner and the one that was using them.

But apart from that, just imagine what the implications are if this verdict is correct. Imagine that you walk into a casino and play a card game, and you see that the dealer is consequently making a mistake so that the result of the game is not random anymore. The verdict is saying that you are still allowed to play, but only if you choose a losing strategy. If you would choose to turn this knowledge of the dealer's mistake in your advantage, you would commit a crime .. ?
Ah, I was referring to my phone when I said type it in the browser. I don't use OK Google, so I have to hold down the home key or push the mic button to start talking (hence I'm better off just typing it). Always listening would probably be more convenient but I didn't want to take a hit to my battery life.
The idea that anyone would even want to roll their own crypto makes no sense to me. It would be like rolling your own linear algebra routines instead of using BLAS, or rolling your own numeric optimizer instead of using BFGS (or whatever other optimizer makes sense). Crypto is no less esoteric and no less mathematical.
You're probably right about the weighting. Anecdotally, again, I think most posts here get either upvotes or downvotes but not many of both. If so, the weighting doesn't much matter. That's a sign that the community has a consistent idea of what it wants and doesn't want. The guidelines here support that. I suspect these numbers would be very different at Reddit. Where this doesn't hold, the handling of "controversial" posts becomes more important. If Reddit just killed controversial posts, how would Reddit change over time? I guess it would get a bit less noisy. (Disregarding the potential for abuse. Obviously Reddit cannot really disregard this problem given their user base, so I realize I'm oversimplifying.)

A post at (+1,-0) is a very different thing from a post at (+6,-5) and treating these equivalently will tend to favor heat over light.
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I think that's expected when the gap between releases was about twice what previous updates have been[1]. Even if people are underwhelmed with some of the decisions there is pent up demand. People that pay attention have been waiting two years for this update "any minute now."

[1] http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Retina_MacBook_Pro
Wow this tab madness... I want one row of tabs, and I want to see the page title on the tabs. I get an itch when I get enough tabs that they just become little favicons so I can't see what the tab is doing (By that time there is a 99% chance it's garbage and I don't need it- but now I don't know!).

I wish there was some system of grouping tabs, e.g. if I visit a newpaper site and Ctrl+Click 3 article links it would keep those tabs "under" the main site tab, and the tab would only display "nytimes.com (4)". As long as I'm viewing one of them, the tabs of that particular domain would expand and other sites would collapse.

Is there a browser or chrome plugin that does this?
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I can say "Alexa, turn off all lights" before going to bed, eg. I can turn the backyard lights without leaving my bedroom if I hear a noise.
The article touches on this. There is an equivalent product available from Google. People, in the US apparently, are more inclined to shift to a another vendor if they have the item in stock.
I am generally in the same camp (technological changes have the greatest effect) but radio->Nazi Germany seems a bit too extreme reductionism.

On the other hand, you can partly derive the political system from technological changes too (I.e. without the socialist scare you don't get fascist regimes, and without the industrial revolution you don't get socialism)
I don't understand how it's not exploitable. The casino can't control whether cards get marked. They get marked all the time during regular gameplay.
See paragraph 66:

> Because Google requires Googlers to waive their right to seek class-wide injunctive relief for Google’s illegal conduct, the only effective remedy to address Google’s
illegal conduct is the aggressive and full imposition of penalties under the Private Attorneys General Act.
It can't be controversial for anyone who is even barely informed. I mean, how do they afford to build the fancy casinos, pay the employees, etc.? There's no way it's a loss leader for the hotels or restaurants.
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