I think it’s unlikely a game that high profile would be the target of a betting scheme. Much more likely some everyday regular season games, or even specific portion of a game are manipulated. You can bet on things that are way more in your control to win if you have that kind of influence such as a single players performance over a game, one quarter/inning, one hole of golf, etc
I've probably given Square Enix multiple hundreds of dollars at this point paying for a FF14 subscription during months I would have otherwise canceled it for the sole purpose of keeping the house I own.
To expand, "ownership" is a social contract. It's yours until someone else thinks it is worth their trouble to take it.
So there is no such thing as "really" owning something, it is only yours if sufficiently other people agree that it is possible to own and that you are that owner.
Part of paying property tax is an acknowledgement that your "ownership" is a social construct, and the tax is your contribution back to that society.
I wasn't getting that philosophical. I just think "ownership" isn't 100% consistent with property that can be confiscated by the government if you fail to make an annual payment.
on the other hand, I do feel like I "own" my bike. the government won't try hard to help me if someone steals it, but I don't need to pay some central authority in perpetuity to keep it. I guess you could argue that the trouble I go to to avoid theft is in some sense a "payment", but that becomes a bit abstract for me.
> "ownership" is a social contract. It's yours until someone else thinks it is worth their trouble to take it.
> So there is no such thing as "really" owning something, it is only yours if sufficiently other people agree that it is possible to own and that you are that owner.
This argument seems to have some trouble with the concept of theft.
> This argument seems to have some trouble with the concept of theft.
Quite the contrary. If people gang up on you and take your things there may be nothing you can do about it.
Some of your possessions have a “finders keepers” status. You drop a 20 on the floor, too bad.
Some things are worth it socially to protect (house titles and their transfer are elaborate to make them hard, though sadly not impossible, to steal).
Banks get a special level of protection from the authorities but they have to take various steps to reduce risk themselves. It’s worth it because of robbing banks were easy a lot of other things would stop working.
While “society” has decided that fighting bike thefts isn’t generally worth the cost.
(Just used these two as examples)
Theft and ownership are social constructs. A statute of limitations doesn’t mean a crime wasn’t necessarily committed, just that it no longer meets the cost/benefit threshold.
Most appealing setups with RGB lighting only use a single color unlike how they are usually advertised. Browsing https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/ should give a good idea of what people are doing with RGB lighting in the wild.
I've been deep in the k8s on raspberry pi's world recently and ran across someone who was doing this with Bitwarden for their personal setup. I use 1password as my password manager of choice and was immediately trying to find ways to do something similar using the 1password CLI, so this is very convenient timing.
It's fine on my screen. But yes, my experience with dark mode is that it requires a finer tuning by the user, done right it's superior to light mode, but the threshold of success is tighter
You can check your gamma settings, but that's a bit of an ask if you have everything setup just right. Green line numbers are pretty indicative either way
I think the mix of font colours is also a problem on the diffs alongside the dark green, which makes it really hard to see what's going on. I've switched back to light mode for reviewing PRs
The question most people are probably thinking of is "What are the chances of any sequence of numbers being drawn?", not just this specific one in the article.
Actually no, because this lottery picks five balls from a pool of 50 and then one ball from a pool of 20. So there are only 15 possibilities where the whole draw is six consecutive numbers (from 1-2-3-4-5/6 to 15-16-17-18-19/20).
No, in fact the numbers were not drawn sequentially but arranged in order after. The only exception is the powerball, the 10 in this case, which always is last in the draw and positioned last in the final numbers.
Same, I'm rid of Google except for Youtube. There are just too many creators I follow there that I really enjoy to give it up. A few upload their videos to Patreon (usually for early access) and I think if I ever manage to ditch Youtube that is how it's going to happen.
I'm looking into this myself and ran across what looks to be a more "official" tool for this [1]. Kubernetes is a fast moving ecosystem and using random OSS operators has bit us in the past.
Unfortunate side effect of their success. Most bigger servers I'm on require having a verified account otherwise all you can see is a single message asking you to verify.
I envy you greatly. When these were put on sale a freak snowstorm happened to hit the northeast and me and everyone else around had no power for close to a week. I was after one of the more populated servers (Kil'jaeden) and my phones battery just didn't last long enough to get that final bid in. I still regret not just putting in a higher bid earlier that day.
I just found my winning bid e-mail: I got Quel'Thalas for $212.50 on 2011-10-24. I remember that freak Halloween snow storm.. somehow it managed to avoid hitting me the capital region.
I'll probably sell the server at some point but I have no idea what a fair price for it is. Perhaps I'll sell it using a double-blind auction.
