I did not.

I have actually read that essay before. It is indeed insightful.

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When it boils down to it, language is just a set of axioms and rules derived thereof. Control the rules and you control the dialogue.

Ennui and cynicism, we're just moving numbers around to up the happiness bar. That's it.

Right. As long as it's not negative, you'll let trash through. I see. Too much of a bother, eh?

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Inundating your team account with merit is not something that makes sense. That's artificially increasing the reputation of the posts, whether you care or not.

When a new system is introduced, shouldn't you generally check to see how it works and what effects it has upon other systems? If you had done so, you would have only sent 1 merit.^*

It's enforcing an equivalence, subconsciously or not, through synonymous words.

For example if we create new terms for homosexual:
rainbow dancer
pit digger

The former is associated with lighter or happier terms whereas the latter bends slightly towards negativity.

I believe what happens, though, is there is a cultural push toward a certain connotation (given the most common tone/inflections) for given words. The "less abrasive" language nowadays seems that way because they were not yet given the overarching negative connotation but were pressed to initially seem positive.

That's why it's really never colloquial language that's used: to obfuscate any cynicism and to reset the tone to 0 so that it can be morphed into that of a softer connotation.

Well, that's the more serious way of looking at it.

Pushing a narrative, innit? By controlling one's language, their way of communicating, you in turn control the way that they're able to think. If they cannot express an anti-X idea then nothing will come to fruition when one tries to oppose it. Something similar to Newspeak from our classic dystopian book

The idea of PC/soft language is ridiculous. Carlin did a piece on it that you can watch.

All that you're doing by calling retards mentally handicapped is creating a tautology: it doesn't change the definition. If the intention is malicious, there is no intrinsic difference. It's the same thing as calling someone an unmarried man as opposed to a bachelor.

The use of this kind of language is obfuscation. It's akin to tautologies when dealing with news about war. Silly. Propaganda.

Why confuse people to "avoid negativity" when you're still discussing the same thing?

The theory is half-contrived. There is the possibility of fraudulent play but in consideration with most wagering contests that are +ev, few would start betting large amounts prior to the final day, since it does not guarantee their position.

Much of the time, you will see players enter high volumes within the final hour (or even final minutes). This is parallel to when there were weekly wagering competitions: if you inspected the betting amounts on the final day as opposed to the others, it would be a huge dichotomy.

No. Just as I conflate account trading with buying reputation, the same can be said of merit exchanges.

No, he doesn't. OP is correct in ignoring his posts. Honestly, take a look at some of the post history.

HH review is way different than telling someone "fold on X" because the former is actually of substance whereas the latter is something that is exploitable and is only useful when teaching basic strategy.

[Nice thread on poker]

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What format of hand history is preferred here?

What have you studied? (i.e. books, threads, other resources, etc.)

How about like this then?


This sidesteps the issue of plagiarism. Or better yet, just add the link?

Bye. We'll probably see you reply again.

Handled.

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Here's to another rollercoaster of a year: may we see some great collectibles come out of it.

At least for desktop, here's a function that can resize the size of posts. Bookmark it and click whenever necessary
(I haven't done any conditions to check for "Arabic" local section but this can be easily done)


Let me know if there are any issues at all. I don't know much of JS, but I'm learning.

Use larger font. Prefix every one of your posts with a [᠎size=15pt] or something similar.

Do you know why it was deleted? Because you want to continue this incessant nonsense of obfuscating your posts. Unreadable posts are reportable.

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No. If there was no clear idea of how to pay users without having access to their wallet, then at best they are incompetent.