Cool. Will check out Stake. I’ve been using Bovada and have generally been mid about it. Not super bad UI and decent set of props and in-game sports betting. That’s not a rave review by any means. Best of a bad bunch. But will def check out Stake as an alt.
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The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own. (Epictetus, Discourses 2.5.4–5).
I always go back to this task: is this “bad” situation something that I can control? If not, let it go - it is neither good nor bad. If yes, then how? Do the “how”. The “how” may be specific actions or they may be about controlling how I perceive the situation. If I perceive the situation negatively, work out how to perceive the situation positively. eg. Losing a job may be viewed as bad because of money issues or career issues but could be viewed positively as an opportunity to pursue passions. Perceptions are controllable so bend them to positive constructive ends.
When I lived in SF, my car was broken into over 10 times. SF police arrested the thieves zero times. And yet SF police WERE able to arrest a citizen who was stopping thieves. I know that policing SF is a tough job but ffs cut this guy some slack and view his actions for what they are - frustration that SF police are failing to (a) stop and catch thieves and (b) engage effectively with the community to prevent crime. They should view this as an indication that the community wants to do more than they are being asked. If SF police took advantage of this desire effectively, their jobs would be much easier and our lives much better. But instead, we’ll just arrest the guy.
Yeah good point on the potentially skewed demographics. Hundreds of $$ per ticket are gonna price out most baseball fans. Also priced out many families. The HR Derby is a perfect event for kids but my guess is about 5% were kids. My boy was getting elbowed out of getting autographs by some thirty-somethings in Birkenstocks. Backing up your point.
I went both days and the only things people were talking about on day 2 were JRod’s 41 (of course, it’s Seattle) and Adley’s switch hitting performance. Winning doesn’t seem to matter as much as showmanship and wow-factor. For the HR Derby, I’m good with that.
So true. If a Google team cannot show a believable path to a $1 billion ARR business, your team’s project gets shut down. Unless it falls within strategic priorities which are pretty much just search and ads (eg. this is why Android continues to get support - because it represents mobile defense of Google’s lead in search and ads, not because the phone business on its own is worthwhile to Google).
See https://killedbygoogle.com/
FWIW I don’t think this is necessarily a bad way to run a company. Focus resources on your core competencies. But it really sucks as a user of their non-search-related products.
This. When you buy an iPhone, the phone is the product. When you buy an android phone, you are the product.
To find communities of topics that I want across the fediverse, I go to https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=All&page=1
Works pretty well.
Makes sense. Google dealt with something similar years ago.
This. Is it really that hard to join Mastodon or Lemmy? Isn’t the only difference that you have to select a server. Kinda like World of Warcraft. I don’t think I heard anyone saying that WoW was tough to join. Tough to play maybe lol.
Climate change isn’t just about the weather. It’s about the shit we all do as humans - burning squeezed dinosaur juice and other fossil fuels - that is causing global warming and the extreme as fuck weather we’re now seeing, feeling, smelling and fleeing (until there’s nowhere left to flee to).
And that most definitely is political, Florida man.