GigabyteCoin
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
That's good to know.
But do they impose the same sort of "60% winners tax" that betfair does? Or anything close to that?
Because if so, I wouldn't even bother signing up.
I don't need to gamble that badly!
They get you hooked thinking they are only taking 5% or whatever it was... and from pretty much everybody who bets there, they do only take 5%.
But all of the "smart money" gets taxed at 60% when they inevitably take all of the losers money who only paid 5%.
So in essence, they are doing exactly as you suggested... "they're just taking a cut of the action." But it's a 65% cut!
Anyways, after playing with them for a few years, I was horrified to learn about their 60% tax on consistent winners that they have dubbed a "premium charge".
Found some sort of edge to exploit and reap profits?
Betfair doesn't even care to talk to you to ask you what you are doing, they will just charge you 60% of your winnings once you go over a certain limit. [0]
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/jun/29/betfair-premiu...
Sitting curled up in a chair for hours straight staring into a phone is killing you a lot quicker than you might think.
I don't really consider myself an uber or a bus person... I drive myself around most of the time and just choose not to drink too much when I am out.
But I have never shared an uber with anybody who I regularly take public transit with.
And i have never shared a public transit ride with anybody who I regularly share an uber ride home with.
All I am getting at is I do not believe that Uber is stealing away too many people from the bus system at least where I reside.
[0] https://www.google.com/search?dcr=0&q="Midtown+Yacht+Club"+u...
The right answer to those failures is to pressure the system to change, as this newspaper article is helping to do.
You're amazed that most Americans do not resort to murder when the legal system fails them?
That's why we have appeals courts. To appeal decisions by judges that you believe have failed you.
Where do you come from if you don't mind my asking?
I rarely browse the reddit homepage, but I know that most redditors do.
And what's on the homepage that most everybody who looks at it clicks through to? Any and every random subreddit you could think of.
I have seen /r/bitcoin on the homepage recently.
I have seen /r/security on the homepage recently.
I have seen /r/rtlsdr on the homepage recently.
That's ridiculous.
If I want to advertise a SDR to the "rtlsdr" crowd, I do not want to pay for impressions for every single user on reddit who has just recently viewed /r/rtlsdr because they had a quirky post which resonated with people.
That has got to be some kind of joke.
Why would they ask the former leaders of two companies (Yahoo and Equifax) who have experienced perhaps the largest data breaches of all time... "how to protect consumers against major data breaches?"
That is ridiculous.
They should have asked the current head of security from each company instead.