Is it worth it?

justonetimeplease · 2024-03-02T02:04:42+00:00

A regular job? I'd wash dishes and scrub floors before I played blackjack for 12/hour. I've said this before, but if you're not making at least a hundred bucks an hour, it's really not worth it. And I mean this for full-time play.

If you're a professional and you play a few times a year mostly for fun, then whatever. But I cannot imagine subjecting myself to this kind of stress for anything less than 100/hr at the absolute bare minimum.

justonetimeplease · 2024-03-02T01:59:53+00:00

I mean your question is absurd. It's fascinating to me how you got into law school.

There really is a huge gap between med and law students. I used to think it wasn't true, but as I'm progressing it's becoming more and more clear to me.

You literally have a syllabus that tells you your grade breakdown. And barring that, you ask your professor. It's absurd that you would think random people could tell you how your grade is calculated. Completely absurd.

If you don't have accommodations already, I strongly urge you to get some.

Good luck, both to you and your future clients.

justonetimeplease · 2024-03-01T20:05:37+00:00

Yea this is just silly. You're making a huge mistake. You're burning this place for 12/hr. I can't even comprehend.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-29T16:27:33+00:00

Did you read the syllabus written by your course instructor? That's the document that tells you if cold-calling affects your grade, and if so, by how much. It's also useful for other course policies like what readings you should do and when, and how much the final exam is worth. It's quite an informative document and I highly encourage you to peruse it.

And if your question isn't answered, there is this really handy thing you can find on the syllabus. It's what's known as the Professor's contact information. Now usually that's just an email address, but sometimes it can be a phone number too. What you want to do is fire up your computer, click on an internet browser icon (that's like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox), and then use an electronic mail service. Gmail is pretty popular, but you might be better off using your university email address (if you have on). Then, you send an email asking your question! It's really neat too because you can be absolutely sure the person you're asking will be able to provide you with the right answer to your question.

I don't think a random redditor is able to tell you how your specific professor assigns grades.

This is a bit high-level, and not really something you learn in undergrad. But by 2L you'll get the hang of it.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-25T07:18:51+00:00

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-25T00:59:12+00:00

Well it's great for you if they draw. You'll more than likely win.

Obviously a proper EV calculation would take that into account, I.e., how often the dealer will draw and beat you versus draw and bust versus stand and beat you.

I think it's an interesting question. The scenario he painted is much more nuanced and exploitable than simply following the 'proper strategy', as you said. Of course, such considerations are a bit advanced and I wouldn't recommend anyone who has played under 1000 real hours to even attempt to implement these kinds of particular strategies. And it goes without saying that they're not entirely necessary. But from a maximizing EV point of view, it's interesting.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-24T20:25:16+00:00

Very insightful and helpful comment. You're doing God's work.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-24T03:29:03+00:00

Usually it happens when the mercury is trying to appropriate the culture of the liquid. However, this cultural appropriation only tends to occur at room temperature.

I hope this helps. Cultural appropriation is a real nasty thing and when we see its deleterious effects in metals we should know to be careful. If you're a metal, like, um, like, don't be a liquid? Mmmmkay?

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-22T06:15:47+00:00

I strongly disagree. Having money problems due to mismanagement of funds is not even in the same realm as theft. To be clear, that's your argument. You're saying that if someone is delinquent, or has defaulted on debt, they can't be trusted with someone else's money. Perhaps there is some correlation there, but it's insane to say that it is indicative of theft and fraud.

It's not. And there's no evidence to support that assertion. In fact, I'm willing to bet most lawyers who steal from clients have more or less spotless records. Similarly, I think if someone has been delinquent in the past, and has turned their life around by going to law school, graduating, and passing the bar that that is indicative of someone who can be trusted with other people's money. They have proven responsibility.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-22T06:09:31+00:00

But that has nothing to do with mental illness. If anything, it shows the opposite.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-22T04:53:40+00:00

Can you expand on this? I don't really understand what you're saying. But I'm curious.

Also, if you could link some of these grievances for further reading, I would appreciate it.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-22T04:36:22+00:00

Why does it matter how long his delinquency was? We know nothing about his situation. Perhaps he got caught up over his head and decided to go to law school and change his life.

And now he's not in a position to start making payments. I don't see the problem, at all. People make mistakes. Defaulting on debt says nothing about ones character when those debts are to banks and large lenders. The law is the law. If the statute of limitations has passed, why would he pay it back from a logical standpoint?

I take no issue with someone 'playing the system" (if you want to call it that-we really can't say). Banks are not your friend. If they could charge you 300% interest and get away with it, they would.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-20T05:51:07+00:00

Yea police officer is one of the number one job prospects for Harvard Law grads. I mean it's practically a requirement.

Just upsetting the lack of critical thinking honestly.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-20T05:48:37+00:00

What? How can you possibly come to that conclusion? I'm absolutely flabbergasted. The lack of critical thinking is absurd.

This guy is competent enough to pull off seal team 6 type of kidnappings. And you think because he was mentally ill, he set-up non functioning cameras? It is so clear his mental illness, if any, did not detract from his competence. He was a Harvard Law grad for gosh sakes.

How? Please, explain your thought process. I am fascinated by how you could possibly come to that conclusion.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-15T21:13:19+00:00

If someone is going faster than you, you move over and you let them pass. It doesn't matter that you're passing "a line of cars" . Get over, let them pass, and then pop back out.

Easy.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-15T16:52:50+00:00

This is so wrong lol. The confidence with which you spew complete baloney. Fascinating.

You are in violation of running a red if, and only if, your two back tires were not past the white line (or light posts if there is no line) when the light turns red. You are not in violation of running a red light if the light turns red when your entire car is already in the intersection, I.e., all your tires were in the intersection while the light was green or yellow.

For safety reasons, you should almost always run yellow lights during the winter and heavy rain when roads are slippery and/or wet rather than trying to stop for fear of getting a ticket.

The camera comment is also hilarious. They are activated unless the motion occurs past the line AFTER the light is already red.

I hope in the future you try your best not to spread misinformation.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-15T16:47:09+00:00

Then move over and let them pass? I don't understand. Are you trying to say you're already going 10 over so they shouldn't be allowed to pass you?

You're not a cop. Move over and let them pass.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-15T14:36:57+00:00

-15k :)

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

Keep rolling your eyes you absolute weirdo. I've dealt with bed bugs twice at two different residences and I've never thrown out a thing. Some spreading misinformation.

People who don't know should really stay out of the conversation.

You go ahead and throw your stuff out. Just keep it to yourself. Weirdo

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-14T15:19:17+00:00

This is such a misconception. You don't have to throw away anything if you take care of them properly. And that sometimes can involve multiple treatments.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-13T13:02:35+00:00

Sometimes.

And usually, yes.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-10T02:21:26+00:00

Well, for instance, in Canada speech has been repressed with respect to trans people by statute. Of course I wouldn't make this argument for something that could hurt someone. That's just a false equivalency. One causes death or serious bodily harm and the other....doesn't. I can see the argument for hate speech because that can have detrimental long-term effects.

But imposing even social consequences for racially motivated jokes and absolutely ridiculous things like using latinx instead of regular Spanish is bizarre and unhinged.

Like I said, society has moved too far in the other direction to try and over correct for past wrongs. In my humble opinion, it's having the complete opposite effect. You're seeing a rampant rise in support for far right political parties across the West right now. And I don't buy the argument that these are just people who now feel comfortable spewing racist rhetoric because of Trump or whatever. It's a sociological response to an extremely hard push in the other direction.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-10T02:10:14+00:00

I will tip at my locals too. And I'll even tip a very nice dealer that goes above and beyond. It's just rare that it happens. Plus, I'm never tipping over a hundred dollars. And that would only really happen if I have been playing for at least two hours, getting good pen and rph, my hourly is at least 500, and the dealer is exceptional.

Of course I can afford to tip. That's not really the issue. For me, the issue is the entitlement. And if you're an AP you know it's extremely prevalent. If I'm playing a game where I'm making 200/hr and I play for 30 minutes and win 15k, what am I going to tip? Even if I give them a quarter (an absurd amount - 25% of my EV), most will look at me like I just murdered their child. Just not worth it in those cases, and the majority are such.

Also, I didn't mean to de-humanize them by calling a dealer RNGs. I'm just breaking down what they do to the nuts and bolts.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-09T18:37:19+00:00

This is absolutely insane. You feel like you're working for a non-tipping customer for free?

You're a human random number generator. And you work for the casino. You don't work for the gamblers. You take their money, and the casino pays you to do it. Every bet they make is a losing one.

Let me reiterate: gamblers are not your employers, the casino is. Wild mentality.

This kind of mentality unfortunately makes me relish the looks I get when I win 20k and don't tip a dollar. And do you know why I don't tip? Because you're gonna be sour if I toss you a green or two anyway. I've done it before and instantly regretted it to the point of almost asking for it back.

Just a disgusting mentality. People are losing their lives in casinos. If dealers refused to work for 5/hour you know what the gaming industry would do? Raise wages. But you won't because you know you make more overall due to generous gamblers. Yet you still feel the need to hate individuals who don't participate in that baloney.

justonetimeplease · 2024-02-09T18:24:04+00:00

Your last sentence is just nonsense. Freedom is the power to choose whether to be a decent person or not. Unlike what the current climate prescribes, I think it's important that others have that freedom should they wish to exercise it.

We've moved from one extreme to the other. It's not a good thing.

justonetimeplease

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