brucen

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by brucen 6y ago
It often takes a while for the probes to stablise and get an accurate reading, so this is a very common pattern, but I haven't looked into why. I think part of it may be the machine calibrating to the flow of blood through the area of
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by brucen 8y ago
That single person you are paying a sub-par wage won't be providing 24/7/365 support, which is a big benefit of AWS / cloud providers. It's also a bit of insurance on your hardware in case of failures, free replace
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by brucen 8y ago
Have you tried Google Keep? It's quite good for keeping random notes and sync'd across devices.
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by brucen 9y ago
Do you mean futures? Where are options being offered?
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by brucen 9y ago
With no backup? What if you suffer a massive head trauma (or an unfortunate death), no way to recover your millions of dollars for friends and relatives? I'm guessing people put this stuff in their wills these days, how secure is a wil
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by brucen 9y ago
Depends on the application obviously. A lot of social groups would likely be meeting once a week. It's just a simple example though of how the step function could be useful. For your example, you would just need a step with some kind
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by brucen 9y ago
If something runs weekly (e.g., every Saturday), it could be useful to verify the user has picked a Saturday. Not sure if the dropdown would grey out other days too, as that could be useful to be able to remove unavailable days.
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by brucen 9y ago
Raises an interesting point regarding a staking strategy. Given the bookmakers are going to cut you off, it potentially could be better to just go as hard as you can & live with the risk. Alternatively, an interesting tweak would be to
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by brucen 9y ago
They did have betfair in the list - I wonder if they placed any bets there.
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by brucen 9y ago
I think it's more so there is a chance to come out ahead. E.g., everyone sitting on a pokie machine absolutely knows in the long run, the casino wins out. However they are hoping they are the 1/million that gets the jackpot and
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by brucen 9y ago
They really should have automated the bet placement from the outset, which would have made it worth the effort. Could probably make a few thousand $ before getting cut off, per person. Definitely a worthwhile venture, considering you coul
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by brucen 9y ago
It would be interesting to see where they are making their edge. I wouldn't be surprised if it's on a lot of these minor leagues with more uncertainty, as opposed to stuff like the EPL