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Washington is one of the few states that doesn’t allow employers to pay below minimum wage even to tipped employees. Maybe Seattle is different since its city minimum wage is above…

It was coined by a judge attempting to justify legal censorship of someone protesting the existence of the draft. https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

I highly recommend his policenauts play through for anyone who reads this site. He talks a lot about the romhacking process (the game had no English version until he helped patch i…

The creators sure care if they can make back their development costs or not.

Gambling games are bad for the exact same reasons that grind-based are bad: people play them for the addictive reward mechanisms. If you're not affected by those mechanisms, you're…

> It may be more the dealers themselves with the "casino" turning a blind eye. That strikes me as even less likely. Given that dealers are tipped from winning players, they wouldn'…

If it's company policy, the employees have plenty of incentive to snitch to gaming boards. I used to hang out with a lot of casino dealers in Washington state and every one of them…

> But if someone choose to go all-in blind pre-flop then they are choosing to play the game as pure gambling and their version of the game would be pure chance. This isn't making t…

"Game of skill" vs. "game of luck" is not a binary distinction, but the law pretends it is. I think it's definitely closer to the "skill" end of the continuum than the "luck" end t…

Large companies tend to err on the side of taking down more than they legally "have to". I know of YouTube videos that were taken down because of copyright claims that were outrigh…

Yeah, and for that matter "fundamentalism" has been associated with certain elements of the Christian right (like biblical literalism) at least since the 90's.

I've lost the link, but something like that actually did happen in the US recently. It surely helped that it was so flagrant and that there was video evidence, but a teacher was ar…

He didn't say it was like card counting. He said that it exists on a continuum, somewhere that is clearly less legitimate than card counting but not obviously cheating like bringin…

Is this something that doesn't happen in some climates? I've never noticed nor even heard about this "toast sweat" in my life.

They may not even have permission to air what they already have; some of the developers hadn't even signed the contract yet.

If people are getting mad at going back a page by accident, then they are going back a page by accident. It's happened to me, and while I'm still not entirely sure why, I really do…

If anything many people are pushing harder in this direction. For instance, consider the push for mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients even though the places have tried it…

I agree with the article, but "There are Starving Kids in Africa" is a stock bad argument

The really funny thing is this is one of her least obvious posts and some people still take the bait every time. I still can't believe that people fell for the stuff about using No…

No, Jenn Schiffer is firmly anti-satire: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/2412631958ef

His name is Ken White. And he tweeted this today: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/443809025902129152

MMM is not a lawyer. As an analogy, consider CFAA and other "hacking" related prosecutions where the layman might not be able to tell if a charge is without merit, but a domain exp…

Doesn't the fact that it's minimax mean that it's "unwinnable with sufficiently bad luck" though? I mean if there's a mistake in the AI it's that it assumes that the game is malici…

Assuming you mean all fonts everywhere, I got that too. I thought the next website I looked at went through some kind of redesign until I realized that the next two websites I look…

What the...that tweet is over a year old!