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Buy: 300 LTC @ 241 = $72,300 + 1.49% fee ($1077) = $73,377 cost basis
Sell: 300 LTC @ 251 = $75,300 - 1.49% fee ($1122) = $74,178 gross
$74,178 - $73,377 = $801 net
and that's before accounting for taxes. What am I missing here?
But ... the spectrum of quality in free games is HUGE and the percentage of games at the top of the spectrum is relatively tiny. I imagine this subscription would start with the heavy hitters but quickly devolve. And who's the target audience for this? Aren't most gamers relatively "in the know" in the free/f2p space? Can't someone who knows nothing about free games just Google "best free games?"
Even the quantity feels off to me -- 3 per week is too much. In the best case scenario, where you inform me of three games I didn't know about but I want to play, I can't get through them before you deliver another.
I dunno. Maybe I'm just not identifying the target audience for this; maybe they exist, but I can't imagine dropping any amount of money for this.
Why can't I pause the song?
These things are rarely the case. 90% of the time it's a spam e-mail or a note from a friend that doesn't need to be addressed right away. But I will still think about these things, and actively worry about them, until I read the message.
So it helps to put the phone away, somewhere where I can't see it, on silent so I can't hear it -- even still, I have to check it at frequent intervals, without a real pattern, because a random glint in the corner of my glasses will make me think "oh was that my phone? Wait, my phone's in the other room. I wonder if I have messages? Shit, what if someone's been trying to contact me?"
I mean, that's a pretty important thing to know before forming an opinion on this matter.
In essence, the part of the contract that the judge is leaning on is that any manner of manipulation, by either party, invalidates the game and any winnings that came as a result of that game.
Also, quicktime events "replacing skill" is a little unfair. What skill did they replace, and how did it differ mechanically from a quicktime event?
I use this to my advantage with passwords: When I need to generate a new one, I play a "song" into Notepad (or vim as the case may be). Not a known song, but a seemingly random string of glyphs that make sense in my head at the time.
Practicing typing that string forms a powerful association with that account/website and that "song," and my hands remember it for the rest of my life.
The one big drawback to this is that it's nearly impossible for me to enter passwords on my phone without having a keyboard handy and arduously trying to recreate the string. Also, changing a password (not that I usually need to) is a little difficult because I have to retrain myself.
The advantages are: They're not written down anywhere; I don't have to struggle to remember which permutation of some base string I used this time; they don't follow any sort of pattern.
That gets to the moral answer, which I think is what you're really asking, I honestly don't think it's that black and white. From the perspective of a business, there are two phases to this mistake, right? The first is letting them buy a ticket; the second is honoring that ticket. The first part doesn't hurt; the second hurts a lot. If I can catch that mistake before the second phase, why shouldn't I? Maybe I'll lose some customers who are genuinely upset that they couldn't take advantage of a bug in my software, but in the long run, I'm not convinced it's harmful.
Meanwhile, from a consumer standpoint, as someone who has -- many times -- bought things at a premium discount because of a bug in software (preorder costs for video games are especially vulnerable to this), each and every time I make that purchase, I'm willing to accept that if they catch it before they ship it and want to refund me the discounted purchase price, fine. I know I'm exploiting someone's mistake and I feel like that's not completely honest.
You have to keep in mind the spirit of the machines. Video poker machines are meant to play poker. If you can somehow find an edge in poker itself that gives you an advantageous position, I'd be for it. Exploiting the software that runs the game, however, isn't fair.
The punishment was blown monstrously out of proportion, but yes, I still think what they did was wrong (and certainly against the law!).
To someone who's never done it before, "building a working web application with 3 docker containers" -- no matter what that application does or doesn't do -- might sound much harder than it is to get started.
Comparing a ham sandwich to a roasted chicken isn't at all appropriate here -- it's more like comparing a ham sandwich to a gourmet bistro sandwich, where, to a beginner, a ham sandwich is a great starting point, because he learns about the very basics and can expand from there.
The value isn't in the end product here; it's in the first steps toward an end product and teaching people that it's not as befuddling as it might sound. It's not misleading and it's absolutely not meaningless.
It does a lot of pre-processing, so to speak -- which is why we get such awesome illusions as the Poggendorff illusion [0], tricks like the Pulfrich effect [1], etc.
I don't know enough about the mechanics of how light enters and is interpreted by the eye, but I wouldn't be surprised at ALL if we "should" be seeing more like a fisheye lens but our brain is saying no, no, those lines are straight, based on the countless other stimuli it's receiving.
Because all three cars were ours, and it occurred on our property, there were no tickets, no police activity, no DMV penalties, nothing -- if my parents hadn't been strict (and thank GOD they were), I could've just kept driving.
I also cringe at the thought of that happening, because I, like a lot of 16 year olds, was really stupid.
"Much of the material here will be adapted from my open-source textbook on probability and statistics [0]. I’ll use R code to perform the analysis."
But that's just me! Your mileage may certainly vary depending on what your project needs.
I'm thinking about the mobile one, for example -- since the commands players use are limited to an API, could a drag-n-drop interface for that API work? Then the only things actually requiring typing would be function arguments.
The thing is, I was very comfortable in my ignorance, because "Hacker School" has an extremely strong connotation that I didn't really have any interest in, and so I didn't go and look to their webpage to find that they're actually a "writers' retreat for programmers" -- which sounds MUCH more intriguing to me!
If they had instead gone with some acronym or made-up word or something to which I can't immediately assign a definition, I'd have taken the time to learn.
Taken in the context of the last paragraph of the article, which is where the sentence is, it's a little more insightful, and certainly not limited to speakers -- or anything, for that matter.