It looks like they are back up now
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klinskyc commented on America’s bad bet on sports gambling compactmag.com/article/am... · Posted by u/sharkweek
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.
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Saw this, thought it was a new version of the Ruby server, and got excited. Synths are cool too though!
klinskyc commented on Tips to prevent adoption of your API chrislukic.com/2021/06/16... · Posted by u/clukic
Gotta say never heard of an api like this before that serves everything once. Forever.
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.
klinskyc commented on Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal fig.io?ref=hn... · Posted by u/mschrage
klinskyc commented on Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal fig.io?ref=hn... · Posted by u/mschrage
Congrats on the launch! Exciting to see all the progress
> He tells Bill Burr that he had followed Roy around for a full day, going to all his restaurants and food trucks, and not once did Roy raise his voice to his staff.
Sorry what are you trying to say here? It's admirable or difficult not to yell at your employees?
Chefs/Kitchens are stereotypically full of yelling, and (otherwise) well-regarded chefs definitely live up to that - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/dining/restaurant-workers...
Very cool, and nice to see more options here (especially open source ones). I remember looking five years ago, and being very surprised that there was no Stripe-equivalent for adding scheduling to an application.
Between this, https://www.timekit.io/, and https://www.spurwing.io/ (which is my project), hopefully people will stop re-inventing the scheduling wheel with each project.