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I watched a lot of Rudy's videos on YouTube. He was really entertaining and informative on all aspects of the MTG/CCG business. Not only the value of the cardboard and boxes but how much it costs to start up a game card shop. He has a series on his channel about him renting a property and talks about the cost (apparently signage is very expensive!)

A thing they didn't mention much in the article, but Rudy talks a lot about, is he buys tons of unopened boxes from older sets and just holds them then slowly follows prices on ebay and the like and sells off boxes here and there. Don't consider Rudy some kind of scrappy fighter, as he is definitely a big dog in this game.

I didn't end up doing anything after watching his videos, because as someone below already mentioned, there is a huge cost in storing them and reselling them, then also hoping WOTC doesn't reprint the cards you were holding onto. All of this kinda makes it not worth the effort for what amounts to maybe +$20 in profit per box after keeping them for 2 years. Maybe that sounds good to someone else, but I am space-sensitive (I live in San Francisco).

I heard about Rudy right nearly when he started making videos 1.5 years ago (due to watching some mtg summaries, his channel was recommended to me by youtube), and if you had started then, _maybe_ it would be worth it. now that this article has been published I think the cat's out of the bag and you're going to see a large number of people trying to buy up mtg boxes/cards. Mostly though I'm worried that once WOTC gets a bigger whiff that there's this demand, they'll go the way of sports card producers and comic book makers of the 90s. Create more product than there is demand and cause the markets to crash.
LineageOS runs fine without Play Services. It's actually the default mode. It just limits your app choices. My needs are simple so I don't really mind, and I appreciate the improved battery life and speed.

It turns out many apps from the Play Store don't actually have a hard dependency on Play Services. Example: Slack works, except for notifications and (IIRC) receiving calls, which is good enough if you don't need to be reachable all the time.
Trailer living used to be a lot less stigmatized than it is now. Even as recently as the late 70’s, the officers in “CHiPs” lived in trailers; something you never see heroic television leads do anymore.
I'm surprised this is getting so little attention.
I'd guess countries with that kind of sensible regulation also can manage net neutrality regulations...
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You should feel sorry for yourself as a consumer. Were do you think advertising money comes from? At the end of the day its all priced in the product.
If you watch Rudy's channel he does talk about fakes. But most of them have flaws/imperfections although just like anything else worth money, the copies are getting better.

edit: speak of the devil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7gajYmdUMw
Many cultures make this work, including Japan. They also have very involved, ritualized, negotiations. I don't know whether the contracts are any longer, or if they depend substantially on long standing norms.

What I see in America's big projects right now is a lot of selfish narcissism. Greed stems from that. It's, "I am a whore, and you should go right ahead and treat me like one because I'm gonna treat you like one." It's really adversarial. There is no pride in anything other than making money.

Contrast with the big industrial boom period of the 20th century, when massive public and private infrastructure was built, with really high taxes on the high end - I think they took a lot of pride in their work, the fact that so many people, a civil society, were going to use and benefit from using that infra - and it was going to make everyone richer.
i agree. Bootstrap has wide range of ui components, sass/less, ability to customize, mixin, etc. ability to customize easily via tinkering with variables.less/sass, or customizing the hell out of it by messing with mixin and component less files.
As for the alleged Bill Gates quote, I read somewhere (Deep C Secrets by Peer van der Linden, I think, but I am too lazy to look it up), that "640k ought to be enough for anyone" did not mean that it was enough for anyone for all times. I am not a fan of Bill Gates, but he is not stupid. And at the time he - allegedly - said it, 640k of RAM was (for a single user!) was indeed a lot! Compare that to the 64k of the C64. It is idiotic to think that he meant that 640k would be sufficient 30 years in the future.

That being said, I actually did install MS-DOS 6.22 on three computers over the last couple of years, because the company I work at does - among other things - industrial automation, and (at least) one of our customers has a plant built with automation technology that can apparently only be programmed and configured with a program running on DOS. And it must do some rather funky things, because the software will reliably fail to talk to the PLC if it is running in a virtual machine or on FreeDOS. And of course the company that has written this software has gone out of business a long time ago, so there won't be any updates, either. ;-) If I didn't have more important things to do, figuring out why it does not work on FreeDOS could have been a lot of fun, but just installing MS DOS was the faster solution.

Still, installing DOS these days is an interesting experience. The whole system comes on three floppy disks, the installation procedure takes about 15 minutes, and the freshly installed system boots up in about 30 seconds, including the BIOS doing its thing. Admittedly, you cannot do very much with it without additional software.

Three floppy disks - that is about 4.5 Megabyte, Ladies and Gentlemen. Today's high end CPUs have as much L2 cache, or more.

And primitive as it is, there are situations where DOS is a reasonable choice.

I'm still glad, though, that I never had to deal with segmented memory. That sounds horrible.
Plus, it's not like you can't use CSS Grid on a page that uses Bootstrap.
I wonder if intermittent fasting has a place here. It has many health benefits; what is the optimum regularity of meals?

To expand - I generally fast from 7pm in the evening until 2pm the next day. This helps me with appetite/weight control, discipline, and I overall feel better this way. That said, I'm also a lot more productive later in the day. I chalk it up to not being a morning person, but maybe IF is working against me here. However, I notice when I eat in the morning, I feel off the rest of the day. Figuring out the right balance here is harrd, man.
The problem with wireless is that it's like sharing a single cable with everyone else. Yes, there are a lot of innovations to make that workable, but you're never going to get the same bandwidth and reliability as a cabled system.
Why not try Brave for desktop? Note: I am not a Brave user, genuinely curious about your experience!
A recent estimate of the digital ad market puts it at $105 billion[1]. Divide $16 billion by that and you get 15%.

[1] http://avc.com/2017/12/the-digital-advertising-duopoly/
640k is the maximum available to applications on the original IBM PC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_memory#640_KB_bar...
Exactly my point though quite my comment was voted down I wasn't expecting many hardline brexiters on here.

And Ireland has had major problems like Bertie Ahern and Charles James Haughey?
> "a predictable purchasing power", not a store of value

The two go together, surely? What kind of value is it if it doesn't translate into purchasing power?

Hard to get better than US T-Bills for value preservation. That's the standard financial advice. There is a point in Bitcoin being available in countries where capital controls make USD hard to obtain, but the bitcoin is hardly easy to obtain in that situation either.
This is good advice. Most clients don't care what you use as long as you can solve their business problems. You could use toothpicks and duct tape, and as long as their business problems get solved, they are happy.

Also, they care more about the value of the solution to them than how many hours you spend doing it. If you spend an hour doing something that increases their revenue by $500k a year, they'd generally be quite happy handing over $20k for that hour's worth of work.

You may find some that are extremely fussy and try to negotiate unrealistically low prices that would have you working for long hours. Those people do not understand the value of your work, and aren't worth working for.

Focus on what results you can achieve rather than exactly how you will achieve them. When I want my pipe leak fixed, I don't care what tools or parts the plumber uses as long as it gets fixed.
I'm a big fan of the "Island" app [0], which lets you set up a locally-administered Android for Work profile. It's great for, say, cloning a second copy of a messaging app for an alternate account.

[0] https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/closed-b...
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If you are looking for a truly minimalist OS for your PC, DOS is for you. I have a warm feeling when I try to imagine an HPC compute node running DOS instead of a fat OS with all the overhead that comes with it. I know, it sounds like a pipe dream, but wouldn't it be nice if there was something like DOS that is natively 64-bit and also supports multiprocessing and multithreading - basically, something that turns a machine into a modern high-performance "calculator", without any unnecessary overhead? I wonder how close one could get to such "ideal" by using Linux or a BSD.
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There's not necessarily a "who is more worthy of living" judgment here. Future generations are free to turn off the cooling mechanisms which suspend the bodies or heads of the dying, if they deem it important to have the resources now. In the meantime, it doesn't take that many resources to suspend a head; and the burden would become less if suspension became common enough practice that the "extremely expensive, will either fail or make the rest of your life a hell" procedures were phased out and those resources freed up.

The problem I have with your sentences is that they prove too much. They can easily be read, for instance, as advocating that it might be worth abandoning medical science.
Probably because most firefighters were taught and grown up on the imperial system of measurement...
Teams don’t self-organize unless you organize them to do so.

Interesting. I wish there was a bit more detail on how you organize them to do so...
There is also eelo https://eelo.io/ based on LineageOS and is Apple and Google free. By Mandrake Linux creator. It has a kickstarter campaign now on: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/290746744/eelo-a-mobile...
To be clear I'm not trying to vilify anyone or deny the allegations. It's possible that they occurred and it's possible that the people who reported these claims did not intend to misconstrue the situation. Sometimes observing a situation from the outside may seem like something other than what it is, and it is possible that they misinterpreted situations that they saw as non consensual or misheard what was said etc. I just feel like the article should make this clear because the way it is written makes it seem like these claims have been proven.
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no its just rare in FPTP compared to PR systems which can give minority parties an advantage their small vote does not deserve
> If anything, Apple hardware is probably used for longer than Android phones.

Do you have any data to back this up? Looking at version market share, I'd say that there are way more people using older Android phones (1)(2). The second most used OS (10.X at 18.1%) goes as far back as iPhone 5 and the most used (11.X) goes as far back as 5S.

(1) https://www.statista.com/statistics/271774/share-of-android-...
(2) https://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/
>strawman! those aren't necessarily the same people.

Well, isn't that a strawman too? Seeing that, I didn't say those are "necessarily" the same people -- just that "some people" hold both opinions simultaneously.
Many ad campaigns are sold by the impression. It would be like if you bought a bag of rice, but after you opened it you discovered that half the grains were in fact plastic. Of course you could still filter out the fakes, and you're still left with a half bag of edible rice, but in the end that's not what you thought you bought. In other words, this is fraud, and marketplaces fail if there's too much fraud.
Is it? I don't mean that facetiously. If you and I are both selling the same product and you spend more on marketing, does that mean you can raise your price that much more, or is it just a little, where the primary spending comes at the expense of your margins?

I'm sure it differs case by case, but I would naively expect the latter is more common if you have competitors.
Surely a future generation which has the means to resuscitate cryogenically-preserved individuals, has the capability to decide whether to do it or not? "Who decides" - surely the generation of would-be resuscitators decides, how can it be otherwise? As to whether "people living now are more worthy of living than future generations" - why does it have to be an either-or proposition? I think you may be assuming that overpopulation is a permanent problem, but I think that this is far from certain in the very-long-term...
I love the idea that there's still an active community developing for old hardware. Specially on videogames since many times they apply modern design ideas in very old hardware.

As a dumb example I saw a platformer for the ZX spectrum not long ago, where the falling speed was not linear but accelerated, which may seem trivial now but back then was something really unusual and I didn't realized how big was the difference after watching it. Then you have stuff way more complex such as the RTS for the Commodore mentioned by the author.

About the quote. Bill Gates said once in an interview:

> I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
That's literally billions of brains for all the people that have died since that time. Who foots the cost for an indefinite time until technology becomes available to rectify the situation? And that's assuming technology does become available. There's no guarantee that freezing doesn't cause some irreversible problem with other aspects of the brain, so even if we can do something like this in the future, it doesn't mean we are preserving these brains correctly now.

Also, what about people that don't want to come back? Those that are content with their lot, or have religious beliefs that something like this would be in violation of? Should we go against people's beliefs because we think it's better for them?

If not, this seems like a personal decision for each person, and a complaint such as yours seems to be missing the forest for the trees.
But why did you link the article. Are you asserting something?
They are now, just over limited domains.
> the freshly installed system boots up in about 30 seconds, including the BIOS doing its thing.

Honest question/clarification, is that... considered fast?

My DOS system used to boot that fast. A C64 is almost instant. And my old ~2013 Chromebook boots in ~7 seconds into Linux with an eMMC drive (slower than an SSD but still fairly fast). It's only got 2 GB of RAM so when it hits swap it'll bog to a standstill so it's often faster just to hit the reset key than try and recover.
I like the book 'Man Searching for Meaning'. I read it multiple times.
Which libraries are we missing in Elixir world which are rocking in RoR world?
Looking forward to making some open source contributions in the Elixir world and knowing what we are missing would surely help.
goto is the best way to do early exit and cleanup from a C function. The alternatives are 1) deeply nested if's, one level for each function call that can return an error code, or 2) repeat the same cleanup code over and over again at every exit point.
So in summary you're saying people wouldn't sue for malpractice as often if doctors didn't defend themselves?

That's completely counterintuitive. You better have some sort of evidence to back that up.
Bill Gates never said "640k ought to be enough for anybody."

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/operating-syst...
it's shortner that adds the poster's affiliate link.
Ofcourse. That's a basic feature of humans. Group think, don't want to stand out from the crowd, a sense of belonging. We're social animals. We adapt.
What I think goes unrecognized in the design community is what a tremendous skill it is to be able to put together really disparately styled and designed UX elements into a cohesive whole.

Pre Bootstrap / Material / whatever - I'd end up with designs that were just incoherent. You'd look at a modal, or a file upload or something and none of them individually were that awful, but as a whole they didn't fit together.
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> Well, if the physicians & surgeons consuming the food & drink don't care, why should we? Presumably they are educated and trained enough to consider the risks.

Physicians have some of the worst hand washing hygiene in hospitals. Not sure I'll take advice on sanitation from them: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/doctors-hand-hygiene-plummets-w...
> You don't know how the Uber app works.

So Uber drivers are not able to decline a ride request?
Ah OK. I didn't read it carefully then. My bad. But then this is apparently not guaranteed to work since there's in most cases a permanent spread between exchanges due to various factors, e.g. their availability in countries, their fiat withdrawal cost, etc. Transferring coins fast enough might be a more feasible idea actually.
What I don't get is, if this multi-decade-old software is valuable enough to be used today, why isn't it valuable enough for someone to have written a replacement in the intervening decades?

Surely every plant like this would pay something for the ability to run on modern OSes, and presumably there are enough plants using this kind of software to recoup the cost of development?
> Are there any examples of states or countries that handle this the right way? Can this be applied to NYC?

New York State is the source of the problem, not New York City (although the city government is affected by these as well).

The problem is that the two political parties have passed a series of laws that empowers the party leadership and ensures that voters have essentially zero influence in the so-called democratic process.

Party leadership, not voters, is able to nominate the candidates that they want to represent the party in each race[0]. The parties have a gentleman's agreement not to compete with each other in the other party's claimed districts[1], so the general election is almost always uncontested.

Due to fusion voting, third parties are pressured to endorse first-party candidates in order to maintain ballot access, so you'll almost always see the same candidate running (oftentimes uncontested) on multiple party lines. The only "choice" you have is in choosing which party to use to vote for the all-but-guaranteed victorious candidate.

Party registration is fixed as well, so it's impossible to switch between parties in order to influence party direction. The deadline to change parties for the 2018 cycle passed in October. If you submitted a change of registration on October 13, 2017, it won't' take effect until 2019. Yes, you read that right.

And the party leadership is controlled by a series of local clubs (yes, they literally call them clubs). For example, the dominant party in my district is the Democratic party, and my local Democratic club is run by the son and daughter of the last Irish mob boss in Manhattan[2]. The son, incidentally, openly jokes about how similar the system is to Tammany Hall when violating election laws[3]. If I wanted to have any influence in local politics, I'd have to influence the Democratic party, and if I wanted to influence the Democratic party, I'd have to pay the steep membership fees to join this club, and then hope that this dynastic family listened to what I have to say.

Any initiatives to change this have to go through the New York State legislature, and any bills have to be approved by the top three ranking members of the government, who are coincidentally the most powerful members of the two parties[4]. Unsurprisingly, they have little incentive to reduce their own power.

Unlike other states, New York doesn't have a ballot initiative process, so we can't bypass the legislature. Any statewide ballot initiatives have to be first approved by the legislature.

[0] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/nyregion/new-york-poli...

[1] Think of the way Comcast and Time Warner Cable (Spectrum) don't compete with each other.

[2] You can't make this up

[3] You really can't make this up: https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/mcmanus-member...

[4] This is known as "three men in a room" https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/nyregion/us-attorney-pree...
I've used it for years. I like it but it feels slow with 7.x. looking at 5T.
"If it wasn't fair, people wouldn't work the job."

This is demonstrably not true. People will work jobs that pay less than their cost of living hoping somehow to get by. Your argument seems to assume sufficient demand for an individual's skill/labor such that they have power in the marketplace to do as they please.
I don't know what jurisdiction you're in, but would love a reference.

As far as I know in the U.S. there's a long history of talking about specifically taxing ads, but very little and brief doing. One overview: http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/ArtWeb/E6C2E18E1E...
why that Name in particular did they not know its provenance in English :-) it was what a proslavery northerner was called aka Traitors.
First-past-the-post is bad, but it's not the problem here. Almost every city, state, and county election across the country is run under first-past-the-post rules, and only New York has the level of inter-party corruption that New York does. As I explain above, it's specific to New York and the way parties have written laws to preserve their stranglehold on power.
It matters to buzzfeed it their competitors are getting deals off fake traffic :)

But really, when you are a large corporation that advertises through hundreds of channels there is no way to attribute conversion to particular ads. You are paying to have your ads seen by real people to create brand awareness and get the multiple touches that will result in conversions. If those ads aren't getting seen then obviously they are not effective.
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Folks are (rightly) focusing on the descriptor "best." Best needs a specified metric, or it's meaningless. This always annoys me in internet discussions/arguments about "the best X" where nobody specifies a criterion for "best."

The best tool to drive in a nail is a hammer. The best tool to drive in a screw is a screwdriver. Neither one is generically "best" without context.