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It's more "worth it" if Magic is already a huge hobby that you devote a lot of time to anyway, and if your time isn't otherwise that valuable. The delta of the speculative aspect of it thus becomes a lot less if you're already fully immersed into it, already going into tournaments, already researching strategies and new sets, and already buying/selling/trading cards for deck-building purposes.

I made a decent amount of money off the MechWarrior collectible miniatures game back when I was still in high school. Well, I didn't "make" money, but I essentially got to play for free with a collection that was worth a couple thousand dollars, financed by making smart trades and selling miniatures that I wasn't using or had extras of. I spent a lot time selling stuff on eBay, wrapping packages and going to the post office; to this day most of my seller feedback # is still traceable to these activities. Of course, I was already spending hours a week playing this game in hobby shops and hours more participating in online forums.
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> Plus why does my 4 years old Oppo android phone is not suffering from this battery issue ?

Slower processor/smaller overall consumption, possibly. Living in a place without temperature extremes (especially cold) helps
Runs better on wine than it does on windows.
Encouragement plus realism, without crushing their dreams. Supporting them but making sure they stay in school, etc. lessons if you can, go see a variety of concerts of all kinds with them if you can. And David Byrnes (of the Talking Heads) book “How Music Works” (unless they only like classical music, though perhpaps even then).
What I love about the CSS Grid is that it does a really good job of separating content from presentation.

I have used it in one project and it's awesome. What I struggled to do with Bootstrap for almost a week, I could do the same with CSS Grid in an afternoon.
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I'm sorry to have to rain on OP's parade, but this is wishful thinking.

First and foremost because "best" is highly subjective and will not be interpreted the same way depending on whom discuss the idea. In practice, "the idea of the guy that has decision power" wins. Or, in a more democratic setup, "the idea that makes consensus" wins.

As an example, take the Seinfeld joke described in the article. It is assumed that the joke was included because it was inherently good and everyone agreed to use it. But if you listen to the podcast carefully, it was actually included because Larry David found it funny and vetted it. Had he not liked it, it would not have made the score.

Same goes in technology. "Best idea" from a technological or scientific standpoint rarely wins. Many factor ranging from financial to political weigh in the final decision and what gets implemented is often subpar when looked through the technologist lenses.
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Technology and technologists are to solve the problems, they're not the problem or a part of it.

I have spent more than a decade working with brilliant technologists but haven't found anyone impossible to work with. As in technology, I have found some compatibility issues among/with technologists, but that can be worked out.

Also I have seen some technologists are unable to put forth a strong defense verbal or written when accused wrongly and thus becoming aunt Sally, people find them easier to put blame on.
I think a lawsuit stopping the sport is highly unlikely. It’ll die off gradually as the game is starved off of young participants, which sap it of both elite players and viewers. See: boxing.

And I think it’s much too soon to say other sports with occasional head impacts are bad to do now that football is known to be unsafe. Football has head to head collisions as a matter of course, every play. Soccer, with the header, is much more likely to be next to come under scrutiny IMO.
Seconding this! I have no interest in ever playing Magic or any other collectible card game, but I still love watching his videos.
> An estimated $16 billion will be lost to ad fraud this year, and a significant portion of that will go to criminals who use bots and other nefarious means to siphon money out of the digital ad ecosystem.

That's a mind bogglingly big number, if true. I don't really find myself feeling sorry for advertisers, though.
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I'm a recent convert to CSS grid, absolutely love it. There's no dilemma between flexbox + grid; they're complimentary. Just looking forward to full devtools support in Chrome (although Firefox's grid devtools are mighty fine).
An unintuitive but important fact is that n qubits do not correspond to n unit vectors in two-dimensional Hilbert space (but rather to one unit vector in 2^n-dimensional Hilbert space).
One other book that is worth checking out: http://www.sp4comm.org/

The book also has an accompanying active MOOC on Coursera platform.
This is interesting for the fact of watching a black market item go to retail and the expectations of "street" price versus actual market price might have been just too high.

There will certainly be a niche market for gourmet, organic, homegrown and cared for buds, but for the remainder of products: oils, waxes, edibles, infusions - you are not going to notice the difference between a small business and a larger growing operation except on price.

It seems rather obvious when you think about it though. I would compare cannabis to produce rather than beer/wine/spirits, in the sense that your small growers are going to have a tough time competing with giant farm operations, and will really have to differentiate themselves in specific ways to actually make it worth while.
"An Olympic gold medalist, Comăneci is the first athlete in the history of the sport to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0"

But then imagine that, in that same olympics, there was a 6'5" tall human, weighing 320 pounds, that scored a 7.

What Nadia did was amazing. What NFL players are doing in the 21st century is otherworldly.
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CSS Grid can handle 2D layout requirements. 1D layout requirements in the 2D layout is managed by the flex-box, though the same can be easily be done with a nested CSS Grid.
Of course there were better investments, but you are cherry-picking. Apple in 1995 wasn't exactly an obvious stock to buy. At that time, Apple was thought to be practically dead. How many people had the vision (or rather the luck) to pick a stock providing more than 1300% return?

A realistic benchmark would be S&P500, and that would give you a 150% return.
Slightly off-topic, but Primo Levi's "If this is a man" is an excellent description of life in a camp. In his case, it was Auschwitz.
Well, for one, if someone tells you Gold is an excellent store of value, it's probably bad advice, there are better places to put your money (like a bank account or ETF)

Plus, Gold might be highly volatile by some stock standards but it barely moved a percent over the last 24h while Bitcoin does percent movements on the hour mark.

Stores of value require a predictable purchasing power to be useful, bitcoin does not have predictable purchasing power. Or the guarantee that in 20 years I'll still be able to use bitcoin at all.

The major difference here is that gold has been used for about 2000 years plus now and has proven to be somewhat valuable in a functioning society. Bitcoin hasn't been around for a full percent of this time and nobody knows if it'll be around for another percent to begin with.

Ring me up though if Bitcoin will survive the next 100 years for sure.
Based upon that specific example, it would have been better to invest in Apple stock. But Black Lotus over that time period is not the best return rate, not by a long shot.

To give a counterexample, when I started playing Commander in 2011, Gaea's Cradle was $20. Today, only 6 years later, it's $270, a 1,350% return in less than a third the time.

There are countless more examples where I feel like an idiot for not buying cards sooner, thinking they were expensive at the time, and their value shot upward as the popularity of a new format (Commander) took off.
All these anti-Bolshevik treatises of late merely profit from the decay and ruin of Left-wing consciousness and culture that has taken place in the last century. The old Bolsheviks I once knew would have laughed at this "thesis". But who is around anymore to argue against it?
This will sometimes result in clinicians performing painful and pointless procedures on a dying child as weeping parents stand by, watching their child’s final moments in horror, having not understood what they were signing on for.

My father had cancer in his late 60s. He wasn't expected to live. He did live about 2 more decades. But following his surgery, he spent considerable time in ICU.

At the same time, another elderly patient spent the last two weeks of their life there in ICU. They repeatedly coded and had massive intervention. Doctors routinely did things like drain a gallon of fluid from the lungs, restart their heart, etc.

My mother was pretty disgusted. She felt the family knew this woman was never going home again and these torturous treatments were not extending life. They were merely dragging out her death horrifically because the relatives were not yet ready to accept it.

In many cases, this is the better answer:

...they tell us that attempting resuscitative efforts that are likely to be futile is not consistent with their values. In these situations, rather than asking for intubation and chest compressions, parents just want to hold their child and find meaning in those final moments of contact.
Also, "Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer" by Eldon Hall.
This might be a bit off topic but I wonder why the vulnerability has been patched this way:

if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, infop, sizeof(*infop)))
goto Efault;

Why doesn’t the if use curly brackets? I thought it has been established that it is best practices to always use curly brackets even if they are explicit, especially after Apple's infamous goto bug[1].

Secondly, why does it use goto at all? I thought it has also been established not to use goto unless it is the only performant solution (and performance is important in that case). Sure Efault with probably kill the program but wouldn’t it still be better to use a function call considering that the desired resolution should be the same?

[1]: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html
Might be me, but US$ 25000 doesn’t seem to be enough.
But campaign donations by corporate interests and lobbying _are_ essentially legal bribery.
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The Wow factor doesn't matter at all for the "mature" player. I'm convinced that games like Chess in their traditional form until the end of humanity. After 20+ hours the WOW effect wears off and the game has to appeal on a strategic level.

But if you are talking about the < 10 yr. old demographic that is vital for when most people START becoming players, it is huge. You have to have something really cool to show them to pull kids away from an XBOX or Nintendo Switch.
Agree. This review and the ideas behind this book are really interesting (I've not yet read it).

I'm surprised though that the reviewer discounts legacy preferences at universities. Given the degree to which a well-qualified school can open up opportunities for someone this seems like a perfectly valid and effective policy proposal.
Not that long ago it was far assumed that record labels would loose their power and the easy path to production and promotion would lead to a lot more independent structures. What happned that we still have a similar superstar culture as we had 20 years ago?
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This is a really interesting point you bring up.

I think the issue is that we look at air travel as inherently risky and as such want to do everything to reduce risk. Over the past 100 years we've come to deeply understand risk management in the space and as such are careful to only assign blame in cases of blatant negligence (he wasn't IFR rated but flew into the side of a mountain while in a cloud) while treating other accidents as learning opportunities (Ok, the pilot fucked up but the MU-2 handles differently than most planes, we should require more training in type...).

The industry also had it's fair share of litigious behavior but it was generally recognized that it wasn't productive and legislation has since attempted to keep it at bay with varying degrees of effectiveness

It makes me wonder why similar practices aren't followed in the medical field...
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There's an odd moment in Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, his book about a 1960 roadtrip across the US, where he encounters a couple living in a mobile home and sings the praises of it. Modern, mobile, allows the inhabitants the freedom to follow their dreams and the job market. Truly another time.

https://schlemielintheory.com/2014/06/18/the-restless-ones-a...
Why is it legal to buy any amount of traffic and specifically "view" ? Most of the time even if the traffic is "real" it actually originates from some developing country.

Edit: Here's the part I am referring to:

> Publishers often buy traffic at the end of the month or quarter to ‘make its numbers.’ Traffic sellers often promise the publisher that the traffic is human and will pass through all ad fraud detection filters.

So I am not questioning advertising but blatantly buying traffic.
I have to disagree slightly on the paragraph about dates (#32). Engineers leaders cannot dismiss dates as one of the metric of their performances. The metric is not the goal nor the means in itself, though. In my view, entropic organization and management make this mistake constantly of confusing the metric with the job, like driving a car looking at the speed meter and not at the road (sounds absurd, I know, but is really what happens).
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It is not 99% solved by that assumption because if those are the properties used to detect visibility then they will not be the methods used to avoid detection.
Well an actual worst case scenario also brings down your internet connection. Without banks various internet providers wouldn't be able to pay each other for connections. I mean they could theoretically let each other communicate for free. But we're talking ISPs and such.
It would seem that assisting at auto accident scenes now constitute 95% of actual calls firefighters make (i.e. discounting false-alarm calls)...which makes me wonder why there isn't an effort to situate fire stations right on major highways.

Where I live in California there has been only one house fire in our town in years, but the fire department is on the highway responding to an accident at least once a week.
I think the gift that some upper-middle-class kids get that others don't always get is a belief in their ability to succeed. You also need a strong work ethic, but I'm not sure there is such a thing as a work ethic if a person has no faith in their ability to succeed.

Perhaps it looks a bit like this:

- Some people you can't keep down no matter what you do. These people do things like work full time, go to school in the evenings, and graduate from college in four years.

- Some people will succeed if given the opportunity to succeed. That is, if you give them a scholarship or financial aid or if their parents pay for their education.

- Some people will succeed if you give them a big push. Take them to the financial aid office and help them fill out the form, ply them with encouraging words when they want to give up at midterms or finals, etc.

- Some people won't succeed no matter what you do. Usually, because they have so little faith in themselves that they give up even when success is all but guaranteed.

So yes, government programs are needed to get enough citizens across the finish line. But I don't think this is really about class, I think it is about motivating people -- helping them learn to believe in themselves.
>Appelbaum denied the allegations at the time, calling the accusations “a calculated and targeted attack.”

I think it's worth noting that no proof has been presented publicly, and to the contrary, 2 of the alleged victims have denied there being any sexual assault. So at least to a certain degree these are targeted attacks. Whether he was targeted because he sexually assaulted someone else is an open question, but there were some false claims.
I'll second that recommendation, in addition to a description of life in a camp, it's diving into how one finds meaning in life after catastrophic and seemingly inescapable loss and tragedy, certainly helped to put my issues into perspective.
The kernel style guide mandates no curly brackets in this case.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h...
They charged the company with murder, which is a first for the legal system. That concept barely makes sense. Who at the company was at fault, and why? The company itself is a legal fiction.
Doesn't it compile natively on Linux?
So you consider wireless headsets/ear phones utilizing BLE as an unworthy replacement for the headphone jack? That's fine.

I'm not Apple or its representative, merely trying to help the grandparent see why Apple would do what they did.
> Can this even happen again? Look at PCs.

PCs are precisely where you should look to see it happening. The torrential influx of shovelware on steam has made it crazy hard to dig for indie games, to the point where I’ve stopped bothering
I don’t buy things I don’t have a pre existing need for based on advertising, or really in general. If anything ads make me less likely to buy something based on the associated irritation.

How do you know if you're being silently manipulated? That's kind of the point of silent manipulation - you don't know it's happening.

Maybe you think you wanted that product, but in reality subtle ad exposure made you desire it.
I did not downvote you but I suspect you might have been downvoted because you "stole" someone else's thunder so I would suggest you post your clone in a, perhaps, Show HN post.
I’m placing my imaginary bet on Walmart with a current revenue of 485,873 million US$ (sourcce: http://fortune.com/global500/).
It's not America-centric, it's anyplace-that-requires-a-car-centric.

If you're putting a child in a car, it's safe to assume it's not usually for recreational purposes. It's usually because it's the easiest (or only) way to move them a certain distance.
Spot on. As further example, check out Barry Sanders highlights:

https://youtu.be/eygZLsdKGQM

The NFL in slow motion can be beautiful to watch in slow motion. These plays aren’t nearly as exciting without the risk of contact and Sanders’ opportunity and ability to break tackles.

That doesn’t mean the game as we know it shouldn’t go.
1. Linux kernel coding style is documented here [1], and contains the line:

> Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.

2. There is no built-in exception handling in C. `goto ERROR_HANDLING_CODE` is a common and well established pattern to handle exceptions in C, see e.g. [2].

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3883310
Well, Magic cards is cherry-picking too. Not only do you have to guess which cards will be valuable later, you're cherry-picking at the moment where you single out Magic cards, from all possible collectibles.
And for those who don't have that option / affluence?
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Yeah but not all things are like surgery. Often, « A good violent attack now is better than a perfect one next week » (George S. Patton)
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All of the comments about entropic organizations ring true and hit close to home. Way too close to home.
I have to completely agree with that paragraph. As long as we are talking about metrics, impact is the one to measure.

Ok, if you already are measuring impact and has a correct prioritization of it above anything else, adding delivery date and time spent won't hurt. But if you don't prioritize it above anything else, you are simply begging for a huge failure.
> Changing the microarchitecture itself is not trivial either

Major changing is not trivial. However I can see how they can implement minor tweaks between revisions that don’t affect their main interface (i.e. AMD64 instruction set + extensions) but do affect microcode.

> you can bet that they've got it all documented internally

I’ve worked in a couple of large US software companies. I won’t point fingers but the internal documentation I’ve worked with wasn’t OK. The only exceptions is when the company provided a public API. When that was the case, they allocated resources (developer’s time, plus sometimes a technical writer position) and did the job.

> along with tools and whatever else

Legal issues are likely. E.g. GPL-licensed code is fine in an internal tool, but if you want to distribute it, you have to also distribute the source code of everything else that’s linked. Sometimes you don’t want to, other times you just can’t (if it links to a commercial library you’ve bought).

> because there are things in there that they don't want the world to know

I don’t eliminate the possibility but I don’t think that’s likely. As you see, there’re pragmatic reasons (i.e. money) why they aren’t doing that.

The good thing is, if anyone (Intel, AMD, I dunno, Apple, Qualcomm) will do that, and it will indeed deliver a great value to the users (such as free ASAN), the rest of them will do the same really fast, because competition.
Yes. But locking everything behind a paywall will have significant negative effects for people who can't afford to get past the wall.

Ads provide wealth redistribution. Resources are given to poor people subsidized by rich people.
The author's story makes me incredibly grateful for the current situation for developing engineers. I went to a cheap state school and had paid internships. Also, we have a long way to go on sexism and discrimination, but there are countless fields that are far more closed.
> I thought it has also been established not to use goto unless [...]

“Established” by whom? Certainly not by kernel developers — `goto` is very common in all kernels I have looked at (xnu, Linux, bsd)
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Any ideas why this is branded as "Docker"? Are the same namespacing constructs not being used by other Linux container runtimes? I think this should be titled "Escaping Linux containers" as docker is not at fault here?
Yelp is notorious for asking business owners to pay to bury bad reviews. You don’t even need to buy good ones if you can sink all the bad.

Trip Advisor was recently in the news for having a #1 restaurant in London that didn’t even exist.

AFAIK, there have been no such scandals with the Michelin Guide in recent memory.
Harvard has a collection of jellyfish models made from blown glass from around the same time. There were meant to be used for teaching and research, they are three-dimensional reproductions because the animal can't be preserved and colour photography was in its infancy then. The realism and the mastery of the craft is truly astounding.
Your comment isn't really pertinent to my point. It's like saying that steak is necessary because eating is necessary.

Yes, exercise is necessary, but rugby isn't the only way to exercise, nor is it nearly the safest.

Cars aren't the only way to travel in general, but, for many people in many situations, the other options aren't viable.
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