Fun brain teaser: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/sc...-stories-below

Took me about 10 minutes. Brag I think.

From what I have read there is pretty big evidence that attractive females make more in tips than men

Also there is evidence attractive female make more than less attractive ones as well so I am not sure it's just down to multitasking etc

Just relaying what has been found in studies never worked in the industry so have no experience

You should listen to the podcast I linked also talks about some other inequalities if tipping also like it's pretty clear black people don't get tipped as well (if I recall this is because they are tipped poorly by other black people and tipping is not in the culture).

Actually I think this happens a lot

To clarify a couple of Buffy's summary points. In at least the podcast they did not find women or men were tipped better on average. Attractive women were tipped better than less attractive women, but with men level of attractiveness had a negligible effect.

I was a little surprised that an attractive woman in her 30s is tipped better than an attractive woman in her 20s. The sweet spot is a slender, blonde, large breasted woman in her 30s. I guess once you are in your 30s people see it as a career with possible dependents.

On the black servers making less - strangely, both black and white customers tip black servers less than white servers. That's where they discuss whether tipping is a discriminatory practice that should be illegal. Also since tipping is largely hidden income on the side, it invites corruption.

thanks, was looking for something like this. ordered!

Hey. I got accepted into a masters degree (2 years) for music therapy in Limerick in Ireland (just completed psychology undergrad). Some Irish poker players are from down there (members of 'the grid' paul carr and weesh).
I'm not sure whether to take a years sabbatical to give poker one last hurrah (supposing the course is still there for me following a year out) or go straight into the course and be a qualified therapist quicker. Going to see if the games are good in the summer and take it from there.

Do both

My current job is essentially applying game theory to negotiation strategies, which is really cool stuff.
We generally recommend people the following books after giving trainings:
- Thinking Strategically: Competitive Edge in Business, Politics and Everyday Life, Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff, 1991 (W.W. Norton)
- Co-opetition, Adam M. Brandenburger, Barry J. Nalebuff, 1997 (Crown Business)

First one is excellent as it covers all sorts of different topics.
Second one is more applied to business strategy.

Derby, you still in HK with same company? Sounds like yes.

Hey tim

Not sure how much you have been involved with poker lately but my advice would be to do both if you can or just go with your studies

Nice work on getting into the masters course and it sounds like you found a course perfect for you as well

I work in the Netherlands, always have (although I relocated within the country a few times), but travel for my work very frequently, mostly Asia indeed.

Deurdy,

The first one (which you think is excellent) is the first edition of the book that I recommended
Same authors, and basically it's the exact same book with a few updates.

Haha, didn't click your link, just looked at the title and thought hey I can recommend a good similar book. :-)

Deactivated my FB account earlier today, damn that felt ****en good.

o/u on regrets return to facebook? 4 days?

Fixed it up for you.

There are like 3 people in the whole world I miss on facebook. That site is little but an altar to already popular people's popularity. I have no desire to be that person, so there is really no end game the more I think of it. The amount of effort I put into that site compared to the reward was way the upside down (sounds familiar). Sorry I just don't give a ****.

You don't have to take it that seriously. It does have to serve an end game purpose imo.

I can't find the gif, but 'facebook, where your enemies check your page more than your friends.' I'm just soooo over that site man. Could I kick 75% of my friends list off and only thumbs up people who are reciprocal? Sure, or I could just uninstall and move on. It's about the same thing imo.

I use Facebook almost strictly for comedy/promotion of events, and because I'm politically active I need to have an active page, although I don't post firm stances on things. It's nearly 99% a networking tool, and honestly, a really fantastic networking tool. I've booked people on shows and gotten jobs based on relationships made via Facebook.

It's not and never has been a diary/chronicle of my daily life

Just use it to keep in touch with friends and creep on chicks. If you're trying to use it as some platform for high level discourse then youre gonna have a bad time.

^^^ This. My sister unfriended me because we are both outspoken about our political/world event views.

She got tired of always being wrong and when her "friends" started siding with me? No more FB interaction. All's good, we get along in real life just great.

I unfriended my brother last week for something similar. However pretty sure I am right in not supporting xenophobic and borderline racist views.

Just caused to many arguments tbh

Also make use of the block from your feed those people that use it to show how 'awesome' their life is!

So that's why u never like my posts, FU! ;-)

But indeed blocking from feed option works wonders.

Yeah the block from feed and hide status from XXXXX options are pretty clutch. Especially when you grew up politically in hippyville oregon and have fam in rural North Carolina.

for anyone interested:
doug polk (2p2's own WCG|Rider) representing humanity in the battle against artificial intelligence

http://www.twitch.tv/claudico_vs_dougpolk

claudico is the newest version of tartainian7.
2 teams of 2 players (4 of the best HUNL players in the world) playing the bot for 80k hands. right now it seems like the bot has some big errors and the humans are looking in good shape overall.