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It looks like they are back up now

This article makes some inane points.

1) The SuperDome has had a corporate sponsor (Mercedes Benz) since 2011. It's not like Caesars caused them to sell out.

2) No legal Pennsylvania sportsbook is advertising (or even offering options to bet on) B league Argentinian soccer. It's very likely the gambler in the article was on a grey-area offshore sports book (e.g Bovada), and legalizing sports betting helps combat those.

3) Sportsbooks paying $18 in total on two $10 bets is known as the "hold" and it's basically a transaction cost. You could make the same argument about poker (with the rake) or stock trading commissions. If there's a cost per transaction in an otherwise zero-sum game then money is being continuously removed from the total sum.

4) When you are betting in a non-exchange context (the case for all U.S based books), the sports book is taking the other side of the bet. They may try to balance the book, or lay off bets, but they often do end up taking risk on one side. This is advantageous for the book when done correctly.

5) Sports Betting is the only gambling option where you are betting against the house in a situation where the true odds are not known pre-facto. This is very different than blackjack or roulette where the odds are known beforehand, and the house can ensure the odds are always in their favor.

6) This means that sportsbetting is hypothetically (and often in practice) uniquely winnable in the long term. If you are better at determining the true odds for an outcome than the sportsbook, then you can have positive expected value.

7) If the above wasn't true, then sportsbooks would not have to limit winning players (which frequently happens). Sports betting is basically the only gambling option where the house does not always encourage/want more betting volume from players.

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Saw this, thought it was a new version of the Ruby server, and got excited. Synths are cool too though!

Not quite as bad, but I've worked with plenty of APIs that have an endpoint that returns all new data since the last time you ran the call. If something goes wrong with the call, it's basically impossible to see just the new data.

Presumably charge companies per-seat for their engineers to use it?

Congrats on the launch! Exciting to see all the progress

Chefs/Kitchens are stereotypically full of yelling, and (otherwise) well-regarded chefs definitely live up to that - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/dining/restaurant-workers...

Very cool, and nice to see more options here (especially open source ones). I remember looking five years ago, and being very surprised that there was no Stripe-equivalent for adding scheduling to an application.

Between this, https://www.timekit.io/, and https://www.spurwing.io/ (which is my project), hopefully people will stop re-inventing the scheduling wheel with each project.

I spent a month in Jaco in Jan/Feb this year. I found it to be a nice middle ground where it's on the beach, but is also a (small) city with reliable internet. It's easy to get to Santa Teresa/San Jose/Manuel Antononio, etc as well.

It has a (not-entirely-undeserved) rep as being seedy/a party town, but I found the overall pros to outweigh cons related to that.

Betfair is peer to peer, so the house just takes a rake (similar to poker). This means it is hypothetically possible for both you and the house to win.

The good password practice is to not do this.

I just checked it out, and it only had one server with a meaningful amount of people, but that one server was still fun!

Sauerbraten has a hugely nostalgic place in my heart. Glad to see it is still being updated

This link says 80k/month, which matches our experience -> https://www.fool.com/the-blueprint/stripe-payments-review/

How much volume are you doing? That's been the biggest lever I've seen when it comes to Stripe reducing rates

If you're doing significant volume, which I assume Streak does, you can negotiate significant volume discounts. You have been leaving a ton of money on the table if you have not done that.

There are so many projects out there, it's hard to avoid naming collisions. I don't think a project with 10 stars can lay exclusive claim to a four letter name.

Seems like Github is feeling heat from GitLab/BitBucket.

I guess the calculation here is that the enterprise contracts are where all the money is, and keeping smaller customers on GitHub is worth the price cut?

Hi,

We're nor particularly happy with our API partner either, so would be happy to share experiences. Can you email me at cavan at gethealthie dot com ?

Twitter link is https://twitter.com/klinskyc/status/1246465251614363650

Posted this on twitter, and will re-offer here. At my company , we have had to build an e-fax platform due to faxing still being used heavily in the medical space. If anyone needs to fax documents for unemployment, DM me on twitter or email me (email in HN profile) and I'll set you up so that you can fax for free.

Welcome to the Practice Management biz!

1) I'm not seeing any mention of HIPAA (or other medical privacy laws) compliance. Lack of compliance would be a non-starter for basically all medical professionals.

2) This is wildly cheap, when compared to other EHRs like AthenaHealth or Dr. Chrono. Part of that makes sense due to the reduced feature set you're offering, but something to consider.

and it's happening again! https://www.netlifystatus.com/

It seems like telling the world you are dead in the water gives the upper hand to an acquirer here right?

I never understood having Co-CEOs. Why not make Peter CRO or similar, and have a clearer structure.