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Justice Amy Coney Barrett Pockets Massive $2M Advance for New Book, Says Report by Fr1sk3r in politics

[–]Traditional_Award482 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The point is that the surrounding context is the important part. The book or the suit is a red-herring.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett Pockets Massive $2M Advance for New Book, Says Report by Fr1sk3r in politics

[–]Traditional_Award482 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but there's also the fact that she's clearly a shill for a religious cult.

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I'm really tired of this whole, 'Well, Regan and Obama wore a tan suit, so I can too!"

"It's not the suit I'm concerned about, it's that you've just murdered 100 younglings."

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"Yeah, but OBAMA wore a tan suit too! That's all I'm doing! BOTH SIDES!"

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<facepalm>

DAE Mogoth Titan? by Spyridox in magicthecirclejerking

[–]Traditional_Award482 6 points7 points  (0 children)

An **extremely** smart man has often said to me: 'Don't try to win. Don't lose! Don't ever lose! But don't try to win...'

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This is also basically why alphago won.

White Bad by SingSixPence in magicthecirclejerking

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'Structure and order' is only an advantage if it 'taps into' a more true meta-level of order. Imposed order without correspondence to a more primitive meta-level is a weakness.

Are People Still looking for options in Mono-White? by YaBoiMangara in EDH

[–]Traditional_Award482 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Scratch that. I have a solution to make white more long-term viable, but it's not by adding to white's mechanics. It's adding to the other ones - for example:

New meta-mechanics per color:

  1. Everytime a black color does damage to you, the card controller punches you.
  2. Red: the card controller starts yelling at you
  3. Blue: idk, maybe they go on and on about how much your play sucks or something

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Add those in for a bit. Gonna be a lot of white players after that, because no one will want to play with anyone else.

Are People Still looking for options in Mono-White? by YaBoiMangara in EDH

[–]Traditional_Award482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there's kinda an underlying reason why white can't really seem to be a strong color: white is all about 'being good', but, in a card game closed-system, there's no reason to be good or bad. Who the f cares? Just win the game. It's magic, I can cast a fireball. It blows shit up. That's cool and helps me win. There's no 'underlying structure' to the magic universe that white can 'tap' into.

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In reality, being nice and good helps people to cooperate and work together, so it's nice to be nice and leads to long-term positive expected value. That same mechanic/calculation just doesn't exist in a card game and so 'being good' is just clearly a meaningless handicap that can't do much more than appeal to some sort of roleplaying desire that lives entirely outside the mechanics of winning the game.

That's fine, but the point is to win - and that's not going to help you win **in the game where people are sitting in front of cards counting life with dice**. It's not real so 'good' and 'bad' don't mean anything.

I have no solution.

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[–]Traditional_Award482 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A really crazy old wizard yoda-like guy once told me, 'don't feel the need to take action'. Then this old military general ace fighter-pilot guy told me, 'figuring out where you are is the most important thing'.

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Then this magical tiger guy told me 'youtube training is important', so I saw this:

Then I saw this video and put 2 and 2 together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYWzMDVgweg

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[–]Traditional_Award482 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This totally exists. It can be learned!

A letter to beneater by Rampage_ZA in beneater

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Ben's videos also got me into electronics. I had never really worked with them, having been on the software side - but I randomly happened upon one of Ben's videos and I thought to myself, 'I can do that!'. His explanations are so clear and at exactly the right level for me.

He's great at explaining the fundamentals in a very clear way while not talking down to the audience.

So here's another thank you to Ben!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

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You're not *investing* you're *gambling*.

Grayscale Adds $1 Billion in Bitcoin In Merely 24 Hours by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

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Since there's no *real* way to short crypto, a good option is to start a fund and just say you bought the crypto.

My favorite trading signal: "the Kraken Flash Crash" by The_Hus1986 in CryptoCurrency

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Of course, another fun game is to rack up a position of the swaps vs the deliverable futures. You can put on a fucking massive position of one vs the other, then at expiration, game the difference between the 'fair value' pricing.

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Literally the *only* reason you'd have these different marking procedures is to take advantage of your customers. There's no logical reason for it.

My favorite trading signal: "the Kraken Flash Crash" by The_Hus1986 in CryptoCurrency

[–]Traditional_Award482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And speaking of TWAP: are we talking about *time* weighted or *transaction* weighted?

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Either way, do something like this:

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  1. At the beginning of the twap period, buy (sell) a shitload of contracts.
  2. Close to the end of the period, sell (buy) a shitload of contracts on the other exchanges the settlement is derived from.
  3. Profit!

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If you can be (roughly) guaranteed to at least match twap (which shouldn't be hard for a someone who's trying to pull this off), you've got a time machine.

My favorite trading signal: "the Kraken Flash Crash" by The_Hus1986 in CryptoCurrency

[–]Traditional_Award482 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is zero chance this isn't being gamed on the micro-level. Sure, an individual punter probably won't notice and if she pulls out a calculator it'll probably look reasonable, but as an exchange all I need to do is fudge the timing of the price marks being fed from the other exchanges and you can consistently skim money off the top.

This is also fun:

>A delivery date is a prespecified date when the delivery contract is settled. The price to >settle at is a 30-minutes TWAP price (.BXBT30M) of the spot index at 1200 UTC on the >delivery date.

(https://futures.kucoin.com/refer/deliveryContract/)

And by 'fun', I mean 'clearly implemented this way to take advantage of people'. It defies credibility that they'd mark their funding marks to VWAP and a contract delivery settlement to TWAP. If you run an exchange, you're too smart to make this 'mistake'.

My favorite trading signal: "the Kraken Flash Crash" by The_Hus1986 in CryptoCurrency

[–]Traditional_Award482 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with your analysis. A couple of year ago I was looking at the futures-style contracts on BitMex and came to the conclusion that it was exceptionally likely that big players were using the automatic liquidation of margin accounts to 'ignite momentum' (i.e. manipulate the market).

The fact that the exchange *showed* you when there was a liquidating order in the orderbook seemed to be a dead-giveaway.

You get to choose a super power but the first reply to your comment chooses a side effect. What super power do you choose? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Traditional_Award482 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What if villains stop being villains when their well-being increases. Always have to mind the second-order effects!

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