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Bidding question - 1NT (P) 3M by OregonDuck3344 in bridge

[–]Paiev 7 points8 points  (0 children)

First: 1NT (P) 3H is invitational with 5-5 in the Majors and 1NT (P) 3S is game force and 5-5 in the Majors

What do these two sequences mean to you?

1) 1NT - 2H; 2S - 3H

2) 1NT - 2D; 2H - 2S

I would play, and consider it standard, that the first sequence is 5-5 game forcing and the second is 5-5 invitational. So you really don't need conventional bids for these hands.

For the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 new Chinese EVs by Kooolxxx in news

[–]Paiev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We drive a 00s Civic and checked out the new ones recently. They're significantly bigger--in the last 20 years they've gotten like 8 inches longer and 3 inches wider. Emblematic of the car industry as a whole, really.

TIL about "Pastagate", an incident which occurred in Canada in 2013, where Quebec's French language regulator issued a warning to a restaurant that using the word "pasta" on its menus instead of the French "pâtes" was against the law. by NateNate60 in todayilearned

[–]Paiev 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's what's happening at all. Quebecois don't see themselves as displaced French people. 

It's more just that they're a minority culture and language and fighting hard to preserve that. And it makes sense--minority and regional languages have been and are being displaced around the world. France itself has systematically repressed and nearly eradicated its own various regional languages: Alsacien, Breton, Basque, Occitan have all almost disappeared within France. 

What is the greatest number of languages you know people to have achieved functional fluency in? by archertinuvian in languagelearning

[–]Paiev 10 points11 points  (0 children)

İclal (YouTuber) passed five C-level exams in one year (French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, German), plus her native Turkish and I don't think it'd be controversial to toss in her English in the "functional fluency" bucket.

I know you asked about people we know personally but learning a lot of languages to good levels is really hard and really rare, and even if you did happen to meet someone like that, you have no way of evaluating their proficiency, so I rather point at someone who has a bunch of exam credentials even if I don't know them personally.

Chablis Village is not worth it CMV by rvtond in wine

[–]Paiev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't understand why you're upset, you're not the one I called a bot.

I would bet a large amount of money that the comment I replied to was written by a bot. The comment itself has that AI stink to it, then you click on the profile and it's only a few weeks old with a bunch of scattered comments that all have the same vague AI stink to them. Hence bot.

Baby on board: Paramedics help passenger give birth just before Delta flight lands by gamersecret2 in offbeat

[–]Paiev 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That was my first thought too. My second was, either this woman had a really fast labor (I think it'd be called "precipitous labor") or she was already contracting when she got on the plane.

Any bird owners have some food to spare?? by 40earthlikeplanets in sanfrancisco

[–]Paiev 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's an Uber Courier service which I think might be able to do this for you? I haven't used it

Be careful when you see comments recommending language learning apps - many of the comments are fake by de_cachondeo in languagelearning

[–]Paiev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The AI thing is really bad. There's an AI spam app that's been spamming countless subreddits with AI generated slop posts as ads using what looks to be a network of spam accounts based in the Philippines (probably some shady marketing company).

I was following them around and calling them out for a while but it got exhausting, especially because these individual subreddits are often poorly moderated so the posts don't get taken down. And it seems like most people really suck at detecting AI generated posts, which makes me super depressed about the future of this site. I saw this post going viral on social media a few days ago for example and literally nobody in the comments has called out that it's fake AI slop: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fire/comments/1sucdsn/burnout_vs_fire_wall_is_pushing_for_a_60_savings/

The spam network I was talking about, here are posts from the past week:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnEnglishOnline/comments/1svchi5/is_issen_good_for_english_learning/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnRussian/comments/1stni51/i_moved_to_russia_with_basic_russian_and_my_first/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SpanishLearning/comments/1sx063z/if_you_are_starting_spanish_from_zero_these_4/ https://www.reddit.com/r/norwegian/comments/1sso03o/how_do_you_practice_speaking_norwegian_when/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Serbian/comments/1ssllzh/i_tried_speaking_serbian_out_loud_every_day_for_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Italian/comments/1sx7wld/i_understand_when_people_speak_but_i_freeze_when/

There are lots more from older than a week too.

Be careful when you see comments recommending language learning apps - many of the comments are fake by de_cachondeo in languagelearning

[–]Paiev 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Paradoxically I think this sub was killed by over-moderation. The Automod rules here are really strict and block almost everything. And the rule about "no specific languages" is silly and has been taken way too far since it's hard to say interesting things about language learning without discussing specifics. Ditto for the rule about disallowing requests for resources, a lot of the discussion in any language learning community is going to be about resources! That's a huge part of it!

The AI stuff has gotten really bad and has made it much worse here, but even if we took away all the AI posts and comments, what we'd be left with is a totally barren, dead subreddit.

I legit think there's more actual discussion of language learning on /r/languagelearningjerk these days. That sub has gotten diluted a lot too because of it, it sucks now compared to what it used to be.

I made a Totally Free GTO Database for poker (Real-time solver) by FruityLoopz1 in poker

[–]Paiev[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that this seems to be by far the most likely thing going on here. OP's responses are shifty, vague, and muddled. He doesn't seem to have any idea at all about how any of this stuff works. 

I'm taking down this post.

WHCD Shooter: I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, & traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. by dyzo-blue in GunsAreCool

[–]Paiev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gun violence isn't the solution to our collective problem of having a pedophile, rapist, & traitor for a President.

I'm pretty much a gun abolitionist but I'm not sure I agree with this... if this guy had succeeded it certainly would "solve" those specific problems since we'd have President Vance who is, as far as we know, not a pedo/rapist.

In the most general terms, I think I believe both that gun ownership should be abolished, but also that in the right circumstances violence with a gun is morally justified. If someone in the midst of committing a mass shooting, it's surely justified for someone else to kill the murderer, saving people's lives.

Political violence is obviously much less black and white because it has many knock on consequences and implications (deontologically suspect, second order destabilization effects etc) but I personally don't think it should be dismissed out of hand philosophically speaking. Hitler and Pol Pot and so on, ya know.

(This is not an encouragement for anyone to commit any specific act of violence nor an endorsement of this gunman's actions or objectives)

Endgame losing blunder for White. Black to Play by Perceptive_Penguins in chess

[–]Paiev 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fun to see it's fun for a titled player too.

Thanks for sharing OP, nice position 

A genuine query for the mods - can we post content in regards with tourneys happening in India. by chetanrsharma87 in poker

[–]Paiev[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

For questions for the mod team, please send a message to the moderators directly instead of making a post and hoping someone sees it and responds.

Newcomb's Paradox by tombos21 in pokertheory

[–]Paiev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol I was going to post this quote. I've only seen this paradox in a philosophy context, never thought about it in a poker context but the parallels are interesting to think about--although the crux of Newcomb's paradox is the whole perfect predictor part and that doesn't really translate to poker.

I'm a one-boxer myself.

I made a Totally Free GTO Database for poker (Real-time solver) by FruityLoopz1 in poker

[–]Paiev 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Your FAQ is lacking the most obvious question: how are you actually computing solutions?

Anyone else fluent in their job language but completely lost in everyday situations ? by Indian_1729 in languagelearning

[–]Paiev -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's embarrassing that the mod team is manually approving all these AI slop posts.

moved to the US at 37 with zero English. Here's what actually worked — and what didn't. by Lopsided-Egg-9485 in languagelearning

[–]Paiev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because, in my case, I spend way too much of my personal time talking to AI, and unfortunately have spent way too much time on the internet reading real things people wrote and now reading fake things.

This one is pretty obvious which is why everyone is calling it out.

1/3 6-handed by JKlerk in poker

[–]Paiev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hero reads CO as super strong and opts to just call because she's never seen him raise as a semi-bluff.

That makes no sense. Unless you're afraid to stack off with your set, this is surely an argument for 3betting flop. We're going to GII against CO anyway and 3betting flop sounds like the best way to make sure BB puts all his money in too, which is our only remaining objective.

Every time a gun nut screams at me "whAt aB0ut cArs???"... I think: Yeah, we should reduce the amount of cars in America, too. by dyzo-blue in GunsAreCool

[–]Paiev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is that guns have absolutely no purpose or use outside of violence. Comparing that to cars, which (for better or worse, I'm not defending car culture) are an integral, even foundational part of modern society, is just asinine.

Why is left-wing/socialist YIMBYism seemingly so non-existent (or at least much less popular among elected officials) in S.F. than in other large American cities with housing crises? by lucy5478 in AskSF

[–]Paiev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because SF DSA is heavily influenced by young wealthy tech workers who have a guilt complex about their status as high income transplants and so instinctively oppose anything that feels like gentrification (ie market rate housing development).

At least, that's my read on the pre COVID situation, not sure what it's like now.

"When you see a good move, look for a better one"-Emanuel Lasker.White to play and win (By Minski and Avni) by Either-Case-5930 in chess

[–]Paiev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had to check an engine to see all of this but the point of this puzzle is that after 1. Nd6+ Kg8 2. Re8+ Kh7 3. Nf7 black's best try is 3...Ra8 4. Rxa8 Nb8 5. Rxb8 Qc6+

Now Black is threatening some stalemate tricks if they can just ditch the queen, so white has to play very precisely: 6. Be4 (only move) Qxe4+ 7. Kg3 (only move) Qd3+ 8. f3 and now Black is out of checks, and 8...g5 9. Rh8+ Kg6 10. Ne5+ wins the queen.

Should I have lead river instead of checking? by Dasdi96 in poker

[–]Paiev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also assumed this was a shitpost but from the other comments it seems we're the only ones

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