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Absolutely not, suggesting that the government should regulate gambling and responsible gaming has nothing to do with building the machines outright.

As I said, these machines should be available if you can use them responsibly, the government should dictate policy that gambling operators should adhere by to ensure that users don't take things overboard.

Blaming the engineer who built the machine makes for an easy scapegoat, of course, but if the issue isn't addressed on a societal scale, there will always be another engineer to replace him.

Is there anything wrong with building pokie machines? Should they not be available for people who are able to play them responsibly?

I believe it's up to the government to regulate these things and ensure fair business practice.

Do you actually have figures to back that up? HR's job is primarily to support the currently existing power structure.

Why is backtesting foolish? As long as you haven't used the data you're using to backtest in any way, it seems like a reasonable way to test your strategy.

This is good advice. When it's hard to quantify competence as it is in our industry, arrogance is a huge advantage.

Don't worry, i'm sure someone will make a Hawking Coin.

I agree with you that the scientific community is way behind industry standards, but the reason for that is much less of their code is actually designed for reuse. The overwhelming majority of their work is just "let me try writing this code and see what results I get."

Industry professionals are forced to take the approach of "I need to write this code to be as maintainable and flexible as possible" because they have no idea what the business is going to want next and generally have no set timeframe for how long they may have to maintain any particular project.

There's multiple glaring problems with your example, but the main issue for the economy is that Peter the poor spends a much larger proportion of his income as a necessity to survive.

Society as a whole benefits from Peter the poor paying proportionally less in taxes because Roy the rich simply does not consume the same proportion of his income (let's keep in mind, that in real life, Roy is 100,000 times richer than Pete, not 10x). Taxing Roy proportionately more is not only the ethical thing to do, but also the rational thing to do if you want a strong economy.

These policies aren't about what you find fair, they're in place because they are what make society prosperous.

There are actually mnemonists who have been able to recite pi up to 70,000 digits over a span of 17 hours: http://pi-world-ranking-list.com/index.php?page=lists&catego...

It's fitting that the man who's job it is to throw a ton of confetti is immensely self congratulatory.

"We're not racist, we just happen to not like Asians."

Wow, this is a long time coming. Good luck to the Asian-American community.

Why not take this a step further and understand that their customer base will have more money to spend in those stores with a higher minimum wage?

Agreed, if we make all females of their species sterile, who is to say that the males won't cuck us and start mating with the females of our species? Any female born from a mosquito/human coupling would likely be sterile as well.

Imagine if this were a real life practice. The thought of having to gradually acclimate yourself to the whims of your nebulous NN style checker is pretty hilarious.