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It looks like they are back up now

This article makes some inane points.

1) The SuperDome has had a corporate sponsor (Mercedes Benz) since 2011. It's not like Caesars caused them to sell out.

2) No legal Pennsylvania sportsbook is advertising (or even offering options to bet on) B league Argentinian soccer. It's very likely the gambler in the article was on a grey-area offshore sports book (e.g Bovada), and legalizing sports betting helps combat those.

3) Sportsbooks paying $18 in total on two $10 bets is known as the "hold" and it's basically a transaction cost. You could make the same argument about poker (with the rake) or stock trading commissions. If there's a cost per transaction in an otherwise zero-sum game then money is being continuously removed from the total sum.

4) When you are betting in a non-exchange context (the case for all U.S based books), the sports book is taking the other side of the bet. They may try to balance the book, or lay off bets, but they often do end up taking risk on one side. This is advantageous for the book when done correctly.

5) Sports Betting is the only gambling option where you are betting against the house in a situation where the true odds are not known pre-facto. This is very different than blackjack or roulette where the odds are known beforehand, and the house can ensure the odds are always in their favor.

6) This means that sportsbetting is hypothetically (and often in practice) uniquely winnable in the long term. If you are better at determining the true odds for an outcome than the sportsbook, then you can have positive expected value.

7) If the above wasn't true, then sportsbooks would not have to limit winning players (which frequently happens). Sports betting is basically the only gambling option where the house does not always encourage/want more betting volume from players.

Saw this, thought it was a new version of the Ruby server, and got excited. Synths are cool too though!

Not quite as bad, but I've worked with plenty of APIs that have an endpoint that returns all new data since the last time you ran the call. If something goes wrong with the call, it's basically impossible to see just the new data.

Presumably charge companies per-seat for their engineers to use it?

Congrats on the launch! Exciting to see all the progress

I spent a month in Jaco in Jan/Feb this year. I found it to be a nice middle ground where it's on the beach, but is also a (small) city with reliable internet. It's easy to get to Santa Teresa/San Jose/Manuel Antononio, etc as well.

It has a (not-entirely-undeserved) rep as being seedy/a party town, but I found the overall pros to outweigh cons related to that.

Betfair is peer to peer, so the house just takes a rake (similar to poker). This means it is hypothetically possible for both you and the house to win.

The good password practice is to not do this.

I just checked it out, and it only had one server with a meaningful amount of people, but that one server was still fun!

Sauerbraten has a hugely nostalgic place in my heart. Glad to see it is still being updated