MaximumYComb

If they released a $50 DLC that just adds a bunch of super difficult achievements I'd pick that up just to support them. I've sunk 4 figures of hours into that game and I regret not having any of my goals left to achieve. I've done speedrunning, mega factories, difficult map settings, etc.

I'm really masculine. I'm tall, reasonably heavily muscled, assertive, hyper competitive, dominant, etc. I've still had some friends tell me that they wouldn't have been surprised if I was gay/bi. The only explanation I have is that they struggle to understand my refusal to conform to norms and I'm interpreted as "different".

My understanding is that this advice wasn't based on keeping Coronavirus numbers low but on reducing the damage caused by economic loss to parts of the worlds population. My country, Australia, has done amazingly well at containing the virus locally but I'm sure that a number of smaller, less economically developed countries nearby have citzens that are feeling the economic damage. How many children in these countries are going hungry?

Why are people who did math degrees not doing well? Math degrees open all sorts of doors, at least once you get a bit of post grad education.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that good looks affect the sentence but that they play a lesser role in if you're convicted.

The initial diagnosis was crap. Add in some surgery and the diagnosis improved dramatically, different type. As far as a cancer diagnosis goes I got off really well in the end.

It was the initial stage where I felt I had a death sentence that shifted my outlook on life. When you think you're going to die you re-evaluate some things. I looked at my life, thought about what I'd regret, and made 5 year plans to get things on track. I'm now in the habit of setting plans for 5 years to ensure I don't regret the life I do have.

I wasted my 20's and got diagnosed with cancer at 30. It changed my perspective quite a bit and so far my 30's have been the best time of my life.

Yes. In her Twitter thread she implies that she was able to judge the HBCU curriculums to be equal to that of white universities while also not understanding the basics of percentages. Maybe I've got outrageous demands but I expect any making decisions on a CS curriculum to understand percentages.

I'm confused. Google had never hired from a HBCU and she increased it by 300%. Wouldn't that imply that it's still at 0?

He retired from the NFL at 26, so sadly I think a lot of neural damage has already been done. High school football, 4 years of university and then another 3-4 professional seasons. He has still made a great choice in retiring early, he's the available information to minimise the damage.

I played 7 years of rugby growing up and I hope I haven't done long term damage. I've been concussed a few times, etc.

I think high profile sports people are an exception. For one, they're rich/famous/athletic and this leads to women being very forward with them. This run this lifestyle for long enough and they're bound to get into trouble. Add in that a lot of sporting clubs have heavy alcohol cultures and it's even more trouble.

The reasons behind this are a big part of why I will only look at porn that features older women by porn standards, i.e. 30 years old, or verified amatuers in their 20's. It's not a fetish, I just don't want to view porn of women who could very well be girls still. On top of that, exploitation of younger women is much more common. Tags like barely legal, teen, just18, etc all likely have illegal content.

It's not about the legal status, I just don't want to see young girls exploited. Even 18-20 year olds are too young and are often naive and exploited. Look at Mia Khalifa as an example. Young and impressionable, she did a few porn shoots at a young age over some months and now it's the defining point of her life and something she'd love to leave behind.

That's the beauty of the lottery from the article. I've done the math on my local games and it tips into your favour after the jackpots get high enough. The issue with my local lotteries is that the EV comes partly from the main jackpot, which is a very low occurence outcome. The article has the EV come from the smaller prizes which can be easily won.

Thank you

What is Empire? Is it a video game? I only know it as a post exploitation tool.

Thank you for sharing such an interesting tale. Life is one of those journeys where you're presented forks in the road that you can only see a little way down and you need to choose just one, always to wonder what the other fork held.

Damn, that's a heavy post. If you follow the timeline you see him go from "I'm just trying this once" to addiction and his recovery many years later.

I cannot imagine a situation where someone is a good, experienced, effective developer who has never come across the modulus operator. I just put about 6 seconds of thought into it and you could also program:

* Fizzbuzz with a loop that has a recursive call inside. * Fizzbuzz with a loop that has two additional, resetable counters

I don't even work as a developer and managed that in less than one minute of thought. Any experienced developer who cannot program Fizzbuzz isn't good.

This is a very one sided post and it's the power that Timnit wields. It's the reason she went to Twitter to break the news, to incite mob outrage. It's not about being right or wrong, it's about what negative publicity you can generate.

I don't know her. I don't know the people involved. From what I've read, she sent an email threatening to resign and they called her bluff. They moved the date forward for obvious reasons.

The white men, where she used both their skin colour and gender in a derogatory manner, were accused of trying to shutdown minorities. I would be very surprised if those men did anything with an intent to squash minorities. They were most likely making business decisions to further Google's intent.

Somoene who's career relies up, and grows by, finding ways to stay relevant.

To me, it stinks like a convenient excuse to remove someone who was difficult to work with. Only last week she slandered her bosses on Twitter, which is a public forum.

How does she think that's acceptable? You don't slander your boss in public unless you think you're untouchable or you want out.

I factored that in when I did that calculations. How often are their multiple winners and when there are multiple, how many. A surprising amount of the return comes from the non-jackpot prizes, 58% or something. You'll see crowds lining up to buy tickets and yet no winner for a few weeks.

Because I don't have the $50 million laying around to do it. The EV is only in my favour when I factor in the small prizes PLUS odds of main jackpot / value of main jackpot.

I've done the math on my local lotteries and the EV tips into the players favour when the jackpot gets a bit bigger than 30 million, even if you share a jackpot with one other. This is due to the return of 3,4,5,6 and 7 numbers all adding up, combined with the fact that the jackpot is largely from what others have spent in previous weeks.

If I was completely rational I'd bet my house on it when it tips into my favour. I am not completely rational.

Quick picks are quite random and, from my experience, I'd argue that over 2/3rds would be different from how humans pick numbers.

Also,instead of buying $10 in a weekly lotto every week, you save your money and wait for it to cross a threshold of value and then buy using the saved money.

50 entries into a $70 million lotto is better than 1 entry, 50 times onto an average lotto of $2 million. The expected payout of vastly bigger.

I've done the math on my local lotteries and I only buy tickets when the EV of the return is greater than the cost of a single ticket. Even then it's only a small amount of tickets. The odds may be in my favour but they're still really small to win.

That's 100% what I meant.

It sounds legally like coercian. There are some porn producers who are going to jail for a very long time (their whole life) over this. Recruit girls for a photoshoot, tell them a couple days out that it's a porn shoot but it's for private collections, etc. When the girls arrive they're railroaded into signing documents, in a strange city with no money in their pocket, etc.