It denotes how much supply you should have when you start the building. All of your supply at this stage comes from workers, so it's also an indication how many workers you should train.
Sort of. Look up StevenBridges on YouTube, he documents his career as a card counter. It's certainly possible and you can get some profit, but the casino will sooner or later ban you from blackjack, so you also need a steady supply of them.
I just watched one of his videos this morning. Yeah you tend to hit like into the thousands and they tend to see you as a problem, especially on single deck tables. It's not hard for them to spot someone using well known strategies. You can still turn out a modest profit and I think one thing to keep in mind is in places like vegas you might want to find the casinos that aren't owned by the two big companies that own most of them because they share information on punters...
His whole book is like 'why you probably shouldnt learn how to count cards' and its because its a massive pain in the ass and you can probably make more money doing something like poker instead. It's fun from what I hear though every person I know who has the mental math skills to do this has gone to vegas only to get limited at around 1000$ or so. Sometimes they even catch you within like 3-5 hands haha
Fun fact, Ed Thorpe developed blackjack basic strategy and card counting through computer simulation and is pretty much the guy responsible for casinos having to change all their rules at one point with the game. One thing I thought was funny was how steven bridges was trying the fake beard thing, it seemed like the most obvious tell that he was doing some funny business to me, it looked like shit haha
In my 20s I played a lot of poker and did well, but even that is becoming more challenging. And let’s be honest, playing blackjack or poker with optimal winning strategies is a work like grind. Nowadays when I go to the casino it’s craps all the way. Played correctly the odds are nearly even and it’s fun and social. Casino Royale on the strip used to have $2 min 100x odds during the day - those were some fun times!
Poker is easier to win if you know where you can find players that aren't very good at it, but as you pointed out that's getting harder. I've never heard anyone say that about craps, I just read some math that says don't come bar is a more likely win and have come up on that while making the regulars at the table groan at me, but I used to play a lot of street dice when I was a kid haha always fun to bust out at parties to play with quarters
The house edge in craps is nearly even (0-2%) [1] for what I consider non-sucker bets. Don't pass is slightly better than pass, but again, gambling for me is consumption now. If I win great, but I already have a job. The point is to have fun and for me, no other gambling matches the dopa hit when someone is on a hot roll with a whole table cheering and making money.
You also reminded me of a work trip I had in Scottsdale around when poker had first taken off. Within one round of blinds I and a woman across from me had figured out we were the only ones who had a clue and we just stayed out of each others way. I showed up to a work meeting the next day on ~2 hours sleep after taking old business guys money all night (it would be fun to be in my early 20s again lol).
I was offered a book deal and turned it down, hah. I read in spectacular volumes and books have a very special place in my heart. Growing up in Malaysia, most of my English was initially mastered from a gigantic pile of Enid Blyton books my family had lying around after the British occupation. We even give everyone at Hermit Tech a day off per week to study non-IT things and let the subconscious do some processing on work. Not because I'm a weirdo (though I am), but because I genuinely believe this produces a higher-quality experience for our clients, and no one can stop me from testing things like "five day work weeks are too long".
In any case, the book deal had constraints like "no swearing", and it was implied they'd find their own artist for the cover. I didn't even intend to swear, but I care too much to let them assign an editor and impose arbitrary constraints. I ended up chatting a bit with Ed Zitron after the AI rant article went super viral, and he told me that I have the audience to just publish my own books.
So I'm doing just that! I'm starting with ten short stories, at the advice of someone in the local Melbourne scene that has helped many people publish. Then I'm aiming to write one book containing a series of essays on IT work, and one fantasy/fiction book. I'm a reasonably good judge of popularity, and because neither will be particularly angry, I will probably only sell a few hundred copies. But I'll have a book with my name on it, which is very special to me.
If this was a job with a non-abstract input and output process they would have OSHA saying it was genuinely unsafe (and definitely stupid.)
Many of us build systems to manage automatic actions to take care of this stuff, if I had an engineer I had to take 100+ steps to get something done I would definitely be considering 1) What the hell am I paying for and 2) Why the hell am I paying for it?
Quick question: How many years of industry exp do you have? I thought the same way until this year when the burnout got to me too. I thought I was too much of a high achiever to get burnout and yet I'm in the same boat as the author.
Also, once the people who speak up about a problem leave, all you are left with are idiot yes-men in management, old timers doing their job as minimally as possible to not to be noticed by management, and fresh new engineering grads ready to be grist for the mill. When those sorts of people are writing all of the code around you, no matter how good you are, you will be driven insane.
Oh, this is really interesting, he goes into detail on how difficult it can be to print them, too, based on the fact that you have to make the parts moveable and a lot of them are somewhat small, too. Thank you!
TL;DR His is skeptical. For example he needs to replace just the keyboard (not the whole topcase) to make the repair economical. He needs to replace LCD panel only instead of the whole screen assembly. It may be still beneficial to be able to buy genuine Apple parts but there is high probability that those parts would just be too expensive. And let's see if Apple will at least release tools and instructions to program those recently-introduced chips and make it possible to re-use a genuine screen from another iPhone without disabling faceID or having to desolder and re-solder that tiny BGA chip...
In where I live, there's a sweet wine made from a grape from greece, which recipe and genetics has been conserved for a few hundred years because one rich guy stated so in his will, so he gave away a building (was an hospital, now a museum), and in exchange, their heirs must recieve 2 boxes of 6 bottles of such wine each year, or otherwise the building lease is off.
Seems like the greater feat would be keeping your family size small over 650 years. Most any level of wealth will start to fade if you have to split it amongst 1,000 heirs.
Yup, the leaker is still out there, using John Doe pseudonym. What we do know is that they first contacted Bastian Obermayer from Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Well okay, that wasn't their first attempt, we also know that they've tried to get in contact with Wikileaks and others, but nobody took them seriously before Bastian.
