Interesting reads
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@salacious-crumb Good on her. A fool and their money are easily parted.
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The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code
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Interesting opinion piece about how the media system is playing both sides for suckers, and how we just buy in to it.
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@mariner4life Yeah. Was discussing with a friend a few weeks ago whether an experiment to unplug the internet and the television for a couple of months might yield significant benefits.
It's typical that these great inventions would be fucked up by c#nts!
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@mariner4life that was a great read, thanks for posting.
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Read this and you’ll probably want to retire to a seat in front of the fire with a large scotch and a loaded revolver
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-lanchester/after-the-fall
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@taniwharugby hadn’t thought of that angle , airlines are ruthless in that regard.
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@jegga Yeah. Slots are far more valuable than you might think and once you lose it you are stuffed, probably never get it back at a busy airport. Home carrier airlines often use smaller planes, not just to increase frequency, but to use up slots to stop the opposition getting them. If you take up all of the slots with a 737 it stops someone coming in with an A380 and providing cheaper seats.
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“This was a McSting.”
MCSCAM
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’
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I got that McScam read through on a feed the other day as well. Interesting in how long it went on before someone joined the dots. The guy wasn't being that careful and considering that the company he worked for knew how much he got paid, alarms should have started ringing when they had a gold plated BBQ at his house.
Any serious employee security assessment is twofold. One to see potential for temptation (eg debt issues) and one to monitor changing circumstances without valid explanation.Not to mention that it wouldn't be too hard to spot that the employee in most at risk position was prone to being a blowhard and mixing with mobsters.
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I hate these talking heads , this is gold https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/31/posh-royal-expert-exposed-as-tommy-from-upstate-new-york-harry-meghan-duchess-of-sussex
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