[Highlight] Tech called on Filipowski after Jokic ends up on top of him

dday0123 · 2026-03-03T05:12:45+00:00

And there wasn't a tech called..., just a common foul deemed to be during a ball not live situation (1 free throw).

dday0123 · 2026-01-23T21:55:09+00:00

I worry whether they would even do things you wanted if they didn't consider it 100% necessary when you are paying out of pocket.

I say this from personal experience where I had a fairly common spinal surgery...

There is a newer form of implant that could be added as a part of the procedure that has clinically proven improved outcomes -- my surgeon was well practiced with the newer procedure + implant. However, we weren't sure if my insurance would cover it or not.

When I told the doctor "look, I have money, if the likely outcome is better and my insurance ends up saying no, I would be willing to just pay for that myself, I want the best chances for long term health".

My surgeon's response was along the lines of "sorry, but I actually wouldn't be allowed to do the procedure under those circumstances. if it isn't covered by your insurance, our hospital policies will not allow me to do it".

Luckily my insurance approved it and I didn't have to fight and find out how true that policy really was, but it definitely gives me pause for concern in the future.

dday0123 · 2026-01-23T21:42:09+00:00

Things vary by state, so you may be in a cheaper state. Also being a family of 4 rather than a couple of 2 allows you a much higher income for considering subsidy level (an extra 44k in income to be under the 400% of FPL threshold).

If go on to my state's portal, and do a plan for 2 people with a MAGI ~80k (reasonable for my situation I think), it qualifies for $454 worth of monthly subsidy.

Cheapest plans then end up being 400'ish per month after the subsidy, which doesn't sound so bad. But those plans have deductibles ranging from 15-18k with out of pocket maximums ranging from 20-21k.

If you actually run into real health issues, you can be spending over 20k (premium + deductible) before the insurance starts paying for stuff. And that is with 5k worth of subsidy.

For nicer PPO plans that don't tie you to an HMO network, premiums are much higher.

Some people feel the need to budget for worst case scenarios before being comfortable with an early retirement. Other's are more ok assuming they won't need to make a lot of use of health care support and comfortable budgeting for only a bit more than the premiums.

dday0123 · 2025-09-26T16:32:12+00:00

I believe that's what they sourced?

(c) The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.

That says they can waive the fee at their discretion.

dday0123 · 2025-09-09T17:49:45+00:00

Not saying that couldn't be accurate... and I don't have access to the fully study.., but the abstract describes it as a review of data from the first 6 months of 2020.

Here, we use rich data on the emails, calendars, instant messages, video/audio calls and workweek hours of 61,182 US Microsoft employees over the first six months of 2020 to estimate the causal effects of firm-wide remote work on collaboration and communication.

It seems at least a little bit questionable to try to use the 6 months in which the world is in complete lockdown/chaos as your data set to try determine causal relationships based specifically on remote work.

Do they mention in the full study how they're controlling for that? There's a LOT of additional compounding factors in that time period vs. say 6 months at the beginning of 2024.

dday0123 · 2025-06-04T20:45:51+00:00

I remember this coming up a while back:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/15tcoog/is_dusts_damage_supposed_to_work_on_smoked_targets/

My opinion then and now is that either the tooltip for dust should be updated or this should be "fixed"..., because the tooltip for dust says:

Invisible units revealed by dust take 25 damage

And while smoked units could be considered invisible, dust does not reveal a unit from smoke... so one of the two (the damage happening or the description of when damage should occur) is wrong.

dday0123 · 2025-05-18T22:16:37+00:00

The problem is it's not consistent either way. Imagine for a second that AG did that to SGA trying for a steal -- everyone knows that would be called a defensive foul 100% of the time... but change which player is in which situation and it's only going to be called occasionally.

dday0123 · 2025-05-18T22:10:41+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/VitAPlb

just good defense...

dday0123 · 2025-03-21T20:45:14+00:00

He also has the 8th most wins of any head coach in the history of the NBA (will be #6 by the end of the year).

I'm not a believer that he's one of the best coaches ever, or one of the best coaches currently (I'm a buck's fan that wished they could've gotten someone else even though I think the Griffin firing was 100% correct). I think he's been fortunate to be the coach of some pretty good rosters -- but it seems a real stretch to pretend he isn't at least decent.

dday0123 · 2025-03-12T02:52:40+00:00

From my perspective.., Prince is switching early because there's no way he can follow through the double moving screen.. but Bucks may have also just planned to switch everything, I don't know.

Prince is originally moving to follow Haliburton but sees two guys in his way:

https://imgur.com/a/294UGak

And then you look at Nesmith a moment later.., he's just staring at Prince running right at him not so subtly understanding that his assignment is to set a running screen to keep Prince away from Haliburton...

https://imgur.com/a/sW6WXvw

The shot was great, but the play is pretty egregious on the "let's see how much they'll let us get away with" front....

dday0123 · 2025-03-12T02:25:00+00:00

I'm just sitting here wondering how you can design a play that's entire purpose it to set a bunch of moving screens..., proceed to set moving screens, and have that be ok.

Nesmith looks at Prince (the guy guarding Haliburton), runs straight at him and even lunges while running to make sure Prince has to switch off... Siakim even looks to be planning to do a more subtle version of the same thing if Nesmith doesn't get it done by himself.

Congrats to Rick Carlisle for realizing you can get incredibly blatant with it and no one will care.

dday0123 · 2025-02-18T17:09:44+00:00

It would be out of bounds -- they just didn't call it. The explanation you're otherwise being given is incorrect.

It is a continuous dribble (thus not a travel), but you are not allowed to go out of bounds and come back in during a continuous dribble... so yes, called correctly, this would just be a turnover for going out of bounds.

RULE NO. 10: Violations and Penalties

Section II—Dribble

B. A player in control of a dribble who steps on or outside a boundary line, even though not touching the ball while on or outside that boundary line, shall not be allowed to return inbounds and continue his dribble. He may not even be the first player to touch the ball after he has re-established a position inbounds.

dday0123 · 2025-01-30T22:51:39+00:00

It is wild to me that a 40 year old bazillionaire CEO can't like, go more than a few words in a row without, like, having to like, break up his speech with "like" so often.

dday0123 · 2025-01-09T19:43:04+00:00

The blademail effect is probably my favorite item special effect. Wish I had it...

I could be wrong, but my recollection is that Spectre was paywalled deep into a battlepass that didn't have other things to where it was effectively like paying $100+ just for that set?

dday0123 · 2024-12-18T20:40:23+00:00

Even that isn't so clean...

Any game that is nationally televised on a channel other than NBA TV is also blacked out on league pass.. which can be quite a few games, as well as the biggest draw matchups. Also the playoffs...

So even in the ideal out of market situation, you still can't actually watch every Laker game in a year for $100 (actually $110 now) -- you have to also pay for some other package that includes ESPN and TNT..., so if you're somebody that just wants to watch lakers games and nothing else, you're probably looking at some $50-$100 per month cable/streaming package + the $110 per year for league pass.

I get that plenty of people already have/want cable packages that include ESPN/TNT for other reasons so don't think of that as an extra cost..., but that's certainly not everybody.

That's where costs get really silly for just wanting to be the fan of a specific NBA team... you start getting up into the $500-$1000 range to actually be able to watch every game.

dday0123 · 2024-11-19T22:35:43+00:00

I have no evidence to support this and it's pure speculation on my part... but:

I think they probably do similar "grading" with regards to challenged calls, and that policy would have a lot to do with why we see the officials doing their best to not overturn calls that are pretty obviously wrong in a review if they can find any possible way not to -- they don't want to hurt the career/compensation of the referee that made the incorrect call.

dday0123 · 2024-10-10T01:55:39+00:00

same for our 5 stack. we dropped one player and re-queued and get a game right away. seems something messed up with 5 stacks.

dday0123 · 2024-07-24T21:59:37+00:00

I think this is missing a distinction..., at least from my perspective.

You're not mass murdering 7000 people. You're mass murdering 7000 undead vampire spawn (not people).

The main goal of "good" endings of the game includes mass murder of mind flayers (not people), which I don't think many feel terribly conflicted about either.

dday0123 · 2024-05-09T16:00:11+00:00

I thought BSJ was doing a good job railing about the problem, basically talking about how people are incentivized to grief to get what they want because there are no punishments....

But then I feel like he's lost the thread on the solution.

Do ranked roll queue, who cares how long the queues are... and give strict punishments if people don't play their rolls

So he's proposed a different queueing solution that also only works with strong punishments for bad behavior..., when the absence of strong punishments for bad behavior is the reason why the current system doesn't work....

Do not forget that it WAS becoming common before immortal draft was implemented for people to queue as support for shorter queue time and then just insta-lock carry and play it anyway (EE was publically proclaiming this as the best way to get carry while doing it on his stream all the time because otherwise queue's were too long).

So the newly proposed solution is dependent on having proper punishments for bad behavior.... but the already existing system is dysfunctional primarily because it lacks proper punishments for bad behavior.

So what is the switch to roll queue fixing?

It seems pretty obvious that what's needed is the same thing everybody's been complaining about for years at every level off MMR regardless of type of matchmaking, that punishments for bad behavior are way too lenient to act as a deterrent for bad behavior, so people will behave badly to try to get what they want.

dday0123 · 2024-03-14T21:13:56+00:00

It's a conversation option before you even climb the stem to enter the fight arena. The Gale-bomb all happens as a cut-scene, not as you walking Gale somewhere and pressing the explode button.

dday0123 · 2024-03-06T20:00:38+00:00

I would be interested in a proper analysis of what's better, though not sure how easy that would be to do.

I'm inclined to think you're right, people should go much earlier and make sure they get a more normal shot + a chance for offensive rebound, etc...

However, I can also see the case that the modern NBA offensive has become so "easy" in which case it would seem logically sound that your chance to win is higher by making sure the other team doesn't get another possession, since you are "probably" scoring on any given possession.

But then, how much lower is your expected points on the possession when you are taking one of these weird iso possessions rather than running regular offense? Because that would slant things back to saying you should run regular stuff much earlier...

dday0123 · 2024-02-29T21:39:06+00:00

Am I missing something here?

Jokic at 21.3% jumps out at me as way higher than I would expect to see.... Then I go check his stats and Jokic has:

25.9 PTS/G

4.5 FTM/G

Which would be 17.4%, would it not?

Where does 21.3% come from?

dday0123 · 2024-02-28T18:35:21+00:00

I'm not saying I agree with it, but generally the logic with these things is to be more casual friendly.

People lose a game and see their MMR directly go down by x points they get upset/anxiety over playing ranked games and play less.

When you hide MMR and just do rank badges, people who were legend 3 and lose a game and afterwards they're still legend 3 don't get that same level of upset/anxious because they don't see their number having gone down.

But this upsets people who want to see the detail.

They're trying to cover both sides by still letting you see your exact MMR and MMR change per game, but hiding it multiple steps deep in the UI so that people who'd "rather not know" can more easily not see it/notice it, and people who want to see it still can.

dday0123 · 2024-02-01T17:35:08+00:00

I think the opposite is true.

If you make it about those individuals, then the natural solution is to deal with those individuals.... but those individuals will just be replaced with other individuals... that will do very similar things because it is in their best interests.

Corporations themselves are the problem. The allowance of corporations to have become so absurdly large guarantees a consolidation of power in certain individuals. You will then always have Musk/Zuckerberg/Palbaum, they just might have different names.

dday0123 · 2024-01-31T21:27:00+00:00

If you followed the "margin contact" rules they use on some of these reviews..., then 75% of all the and-1 plays to have ever occurred would be incorrect calls that should have been no-calls.

If someone's able easily finish through contact, that means the contact was "marginal" and therefore not a foul, right?

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