leorocky

> Lots of people lost money. Maybe it was done on purpose? The models I mean. Cause I bet someone made a fortune. Someone short-selling the game?

The considerable amount of collusion required across fifa, the teams and players, multiple publishing industries, organizations, countries and cultures to have sports betting and publications like fivethirtyeight make shit up (to the point that they created a very detailed scoring system for their predictions, all for the purpose of lying about a lop sided 7-1 game) would have to be considerably large.

I think the the better, and frankly incredibly blindingly obvious, way to look at this is that this was just an unusual game that nobody expected and you can maybe take a break today from being suspicious about the whole world being manipulated by a nefarious few who conspire to create every fucking notable turn in history to screw you or someone else over.

I guess the major benefit is for people who do not actually have alzheimers being falsely diagnosed, but early detection doesn't help in any way for people who do have it, right? I'm not sure I'd want to know until it was unavoidable.

These may be reasons why you cannot sell lower than $99 but they are not reasons why someone should pay so much. The stated plan to keep updating the app reveals a fear that they are not creating enough value despite the cost to develop. The plan to update is also a shitty thing to say as this is no guarantee and light on specifics about what the updates will feature. $100 for an opaque primise that more is to come is a shit sandwhich usually served with a nice heap of disappointment. xscope 4's price of $50 is another one of these niche narrow doodads that while clearly provide value do so at questionable prices and the user has no idea when they will have to pay for a new version. Apple's lack of an upgrade price sucks but that's not the users fault but they are the ones that get the shit end of the deal with limited time price reductions that you have to know about.

I've only ever heard good things about C#. I believe C# has first class anonymous functions, makes async operations easy, and a combination of VisualStudio and JetBrains resharper you have a pretty amazing development environment. I haven't programmed much with C#, but like I said I've only heard good things.

I like Wells Fargo ATM machines, the thing you insert the card into is a transparent green glowing device and all the ATMS look the same and have touch screens. It's easier to tell if someone put a skimmer on them. I do not use non-Wells Fargo ATM machines. I only wish I had the option to type the password on the big touch screen and not the number pad.

Eh, I don't think Techcrunch is so bad. They don't usually have link baity titles like wired, they genuinely try to do a good job reporting on new startups and many yc companies get an initial post on TC which gives them that first boost of users. A Techcrunch article and Techcrunch coverage is like one of the biggest boosts from getting into YC.

I quite like fish and have been using it painlessly for nearly 6 months now. I wish fish included an actual programming language that could replace bash scripts, but the sane advice from fish devs is to use a real programming language instead of bash or another shell script. Other than that I've become quite dependent on the nice autocomplete and suggestions from fish. It just works and I never have to deal with any problems once you get over the initial learning curve bump which isn't that big.

While I can admire your stance, I think it is naive and doesn't reflect reality. Look at how weev's statements on reddit were used against him at his trial. Also if you look at the people involved in NinjaVideo, an illicit online streaming site, you will find that prosecutors also used their online statements against them. Employers will use your online statements to create a profile of you that influences their decision to hire you or not. There's no way I'm using my real name to say I like the idea of a guaranteed basic income or that I like Hillary Clinton for office, because America is polarized. We do not live in a police state, but your statements can haunt you in many ways. They can hurt you at criminal trials, civil trials (like a divorce), they can hurt you with employers and potential employers, they can hurt your academic career (finding a school), they can hurt your family.

I am not proud of my opinions, I think I'm probably mistaken about most of the opinions I have, and I think this because of past experience and bad opinions that I now regret expressing.

It's not the NSA_SUSPICIOUN_INT rising I worry about. I am certain that individual monitoring of the average hobo like your or me (I don't know maybe you're actually a TOR dev or something) isn't happing, BUT someday you may become an interest to the police for something and THEN they look at your posting history and THEN they will find your possibly less sensitive comments on how you hated such and such and put some horrible out of context quote in big print on a poster at your trial when the prosecutor makes his case for why you should be in jail for the rest of your life for something you may or may not have actually done.

And so I use anonymous accounts to post things other than nice happy words relevant to my job so they don't show up in search results. I create new accounts and stuff. I can be pretty opinionated and I don't want the average person googling my very googlable name and seeing my stupid uninformed opinions and using that to misinterpret me or something.

This is awesome and probably took considerable work. There is no plugin system for Xcode, which has always bugged me. Why would Apple not make Xcode officially extensible. Xcode plugins make Xcode unstable and break when Xcode is updated.

I don't think this qualifies as a separate distro unless you also think Kubuntu and Xubuntu are separate distros. They are just Ubuntu with different packages for the UI preinstalled. You can probably install them side by side and switch to one or the other.