I hope not - if all the borderline illiterates are undercover deplorables, then we’re outnumbered about 20:1 - IOW we’re proper fucked.
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Any interest in a historical world leaders draft?
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FYP
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Can we just link to Wikipedia every pick instead of doing our own write ups?
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I can see how he would do that because he doesn’t know what part of speech “which” is.
That would work with the obvious picks I think, but depending on how deep we go I think some selling/convincing might be required that would go beyond just pointing at the scoreboard
It’s looking increasingly likely that we will never find out.
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Well, this should be arriving tomorrow.
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If you guys all want to waste $20 that badly, you can just send it to me. I’ll even print off some random Wikipedia articles and mail them to you so you get the full experience.
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How is it?
It seems like it will be a Monday arrival now. Tracking says it arrived in town at the post office just after midnight.
The book is received. Might start perusing tonight.
Lol it’s gonna be exactly what you expected. You nailed it earlier when you said it’s a bunch of hindsight justified rationalizations.
I’ll try to pick it up again this week, but I really ran out of steam.
My recollection is that “about the author” sections tend to be located in the back of the book and usually don’t require multiple pages.
Antonio Carrasco once worked as an SEO consultant. He’s also been a poker coach.
In addition to weird capitalization, the section about the front cover contains the first misspelled word that I have noticed: “Sem-Bluff”.
In the introduction, the Second Battle of El Alamein, fought between what Wikipedia says was then called the Panzer Army Africa and the British Eighth Army, is described as being fought by “German Army Africa” and the “English Eight Army”.
MM is intent on capitalizing “Gambling Theory”.
Bob Holmes and Rich Muny get thanked for proof reading, in case you want to know who not to ask for help with your next book.
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Solid book report, keep 'em coming.
I have a slight suspicion Mason has seen this thread, because he has abandoned his NVG thread about the book. If so, no idea who done it, but lovemuffin is def lurking ITT, he put a like on one of my posts. Prob wasn’t him tho, Mason strikes me as vain enough to google his own name on the reg (and his book), so prob found it.
Anyway, between those possibilites, I lay 3:1 MM has seen the thread.
Page 11 has a footnote, yet he doesn’t seem to want to do this for sources.
His whole idea of gambling vs. non-gambling feels contrary to modern thought about poker. I’m used to thinking in terms of equity and ranges. A modern gambler should place events on a continuum of gambling. A low-variance event still has some uncertainty. There is gambling as he defines a gambling event, just not much. Getting it in as a 95% favorite in poker is still gambling.
I think Mason thinks that introducing the term “non-self-weighting” is his single greatest contribution to “Gambling Theory”. He will work it into anything he writes if he sees an opening. As far as I can tell, a non-self-weighting strategy could more easily be described as a selective strategy and could be explained far more simply. It just feels like conspicuously esoteric terminology used to create a veneer of profundity.
I’m not sure why they feel the need to say the “American Broadcasting Company”, but can’t spell out Florida in referring to Miami, Fla" and don’t use a period to abbreviate the state.
It’s funny that they use a picture of Hank Stram from 1955 in a chapter about Super Bowl IV.
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David and Goliath has been discussed, so I will add that Mason’s story relies on Goliath suffering the effects of gigantism. He describes Goliath as a “longtime champion”, suffering from the health problems that people with gigantism acquire as they get older. As far as I can tell, the Bible says nothing about how long Goliath had been fighting. It is also believed that rather than being around nine feet tall, he was closer to six foot six, if you go off earlier texts and accept his stated height as either an exaggeration that was added later or a transcription error.
Victor Davis Hanson (misspelled as “Hansen”) is mentioned at the start of the chapter on Xerxes. He’s a classicist and contributor to The National Review, where he has a podcast. His most recent book is The Case for Trump. I leave it to the rest of you to hunt down his more deplorable opinions.
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Hanson is one of those well read people who is a complete fucking moron. He’s been WOATing it up providing a veneer of respectability to indefensible ideas since I’ve been on the internet. If you can imagine a historian who thinks Trump is the man for the hour, Hanson is exactly what you’re imagining.
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