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Re:Ask HN: Good Online Maths Communities? on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @02:49AM (#41774425)
Cross Validated Stack Exchange.

Show HN: I made a Windows XP themed fantasy football game

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oQRR8-xFFMtP6CG3pUpTmKJ8s-gL_val/view?usp=sharing

Built this work in progress website with some friends for our fantasy football competition. The interface is styled using React to look like the early 2000s Windows XP operating system. For the actual competition our UI/UX was different, and I'm not sure if this nostalgic design will be the most practical for our next competition. Ultimately the contest was really fun, we already had a winner...

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I love public transport and when I lived in Europe (bounced around Schengen for a year or two), I probably took Uber only once (when I was buying an office chair from Ikea). And while I would love more public transport in the United States, the reality is that in big cities the level of safety compared to the level of safety in European or Asian cities is just not up to par.
Re:Sports Betting Apps Are Even More Toxic Than You Thought on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:27PM (#41733438)
How were you compensated? You mention 'shops', so I'm guessing this was in the UK?
Re:Sports Betting Apps Are Even More Toxic Than You Thought on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:27PM (#41733436)
~£50,000 a day in trading volume, that's a lot! What markets were you trading on?
Re:Sports Betting Apps Are Even More Toxic Than You Thought on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:26PM (#41733429)
Pinnacle (not sure it's 'Asian', I believe their main offices are in Toronto) takes a lot of action on major markets. For smaller markets such as player props, Pinnacle takes very little. If you were confident in beating major markets, such as EPL or NFL, Pinnacle will very regularly take $50k a click, with rebets possible. However, if you're betting major markets, even the 'softer' books such as DraftKings would probably be willing to take a lot as well.

The soft books usually kick out or limit players if they are beating smaller markets such as player props, team props, derivatives (for example, a 1Q team total, etc). A 'sharp' book such as Circa or Pinnacle might not explicitly limit an individual player, but in general they don't offer as many markets, so it's not an apples to apples comparison.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:06PM (#41732625)
SICP, that brings me back to the freshman year CS course I took at Berkeley five years ago.