Claiming that raising A4hh "really isn't very good" is ridiculous.

suzzer do you watch homeland

https://twitter.com/urbandata/status/837031528936968208

Article was paywalled for me, but huh? That quote seems pretty wild.

What sort of betting odds would people give me on Elon Musk being an alien or a time traveller or something? I pay $1 up front, you pay $X when Musk is revealed to be a cyborg prosthesis of a superintelligent AI.

It isn't good because A4hh benefits from the blinds coming along. Obviously if villain was in the big blind and the flop goes bet call call then raising is great. Raising and keeping the blinds from putting money in isn't as good.

Are the Boomers ruining everything?

https://medium.com/@MattBruenig/are-...l-8faf4cdbbc9a

My kid asked me "didn't you play online poker for a while?"

Me - "Yes."

Him - "Did you win?"

Me - "Yes."

Him - "I mean overall. Not like a few times."

Me - "Yes."

Him - "How much?"

Me - "Well, I played as high as $1000NL. Played off and on for 3 or 4 years. Might have played a half a million hands all told. I think I ended up about $400, not counting points that I couldn't spend."

Him - "Wasn't that kind of a waste of time?"

Me - "Yes."

I mean if he can get the blind to fold an eight then sure it's terrific. But another point is that if you're going to bluff with a flush draw it's probably better to do so with jack or queen or king high rather than ace high. And you shouldn't be bluffing with all of your flush draws, it's better to raise some and not raise others. Otherwise you won't have a flush when you just call the flop

no

NC trans bill really underscores how impossible it is to be a democrat in government right now. Republicans pass a ridiculously discriminatory bill that costs the state literal billions, but they still get to extract concessions from dems on repeal bc most of that cost falls on democratic areas.

This map is part of a vast conspiracy to make Ohio seem relevant.

Study of law student resumes finds that lower-class signals on resumes decimate men's chances of getting interviews at elite firms

They followed up by asking individual attorneys to explain why they would or wouldn't give someone a callback:

Just wait until the Trumpwall goes up.

The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby’s

"Although 76,000 might seem like a large number, consider that similar numbers of people are employed by, say, the bowling (69,088) and skiing (75,036) industries. Other dwindling industries, such as travel agencies (99,888 people), employ considerably more. Used-car dealerships provide 138,000 jobs. Theme parks provide nearly 144,000. Carwash employment tops 150,000."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.980bdcb105a1

For the first time, SpaceX reused one of those rockets they've been landing back on Earth.

arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/we-may-have-just-witnessed-the-dawn-of-truly-commercial-spaceflight/

I find this breakdown to be highly deceiving. For a few reasons

1. It is from 2013. Asset prices like housing and stocks have gone up significantly since then, which boomers own a significant portion of these assets.

2. It doesn't include entitlements like state pensions where boomers just are feasting. Many of them paid into the system like 1/2 of what people are paying in these days to keep the programs going. Then social security income stream. That's basically a bond worth 5-600k for most people.

3. Most of those networth calculations don't include personal residence and many boomers have houses that have gone up 3-4fold over the last 30 years that are now debt free. I know there are 2 calculations, 1 not including personal residence equity but tons of people could and should downsize their homes but let's face it, they just don't want to.

Sure there are some poor olds, but that generation overall did really well, regardless of what you want to attribute it to.

I can't imagine when trucks can start driving themselves on simple point A to point B highway drives. This is like 4 million jobs.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/25/th...lions-of-jobs/

If we're keeping coal around for 100k jobs then I fear we will go full-Luddite and thus delay this innovation.

maps.google.com has pac man mode

LOL

Google has way too much time on their hands.

More FAKE NEWS from CNN:

What is there not actually a storm?

The startup guys I work with in Aussie (Brisbane I think) are hunkered down. One of them is kind of a doomsday pretty prepper and has backup power for a month or something. He's like - who's laughing now MFer! Maybe if things really hit the fan he'll get to use all those silver coins he's been buying.

Glaringly, the bottom label (Queensland, a mainland province) is actually pointing to the island of Tasmania. I don't know if the rest of the labels are correct or not.