In sports betting you are betting against the house. If the sportsbook sets a bad line, you can lock it in and make money off of it.
Horse racing is what you describe, parimutuel, where the house just takes a commission. But the odds shift even after you place your bet. Very different for traditional sports betting.
I only took sensors that have been tested by AQ-Spec into consideration because they mention the PM module used and the Awair Element was not tested by them.
Cost is quite a bit higher over $200 and the components can't be replaced. This is important as there's a limited lifespan of certain sensors which should be taken into account.
At least for the previous model, the sensor module was an all-in-one that I was able to easily replace myself with the exact part from AliExpress. It wasn’t officially replaceable but it was fewer than 10 screws and like a 2/10 difficulty. Afterwards it booted right up.
“Luxury” is often a marketing term used for very much not luxury apartments. There’s nothing “luxury” about a 900 sqft apartment that happens to have decent stainless steel appliances and a modern look.
New apartments (like new cars) are always priced higher than older buildings, but give it a few years and prices drop.
This is very true. I’ve been in a bunch of “luxury” apartments in the Boston area…the finishes are modern maybe but rarely luxury. Vinyl flooring, cheap (albeit stainless steel) appliances, small bathrooms, etc.
I usually use the terms “luxury apartment” and “arbitrarily high rent” to mean the same thing. A luxury apartment is simply an apartment with higher rent, that is the only “luxury” about it.
Plenty of fat or elderly people can ride bikes, especially e-assist bikes. More people can ride bikes than can drive cars… 82M people don’t have drivers licenses in America.
In fact, it’s much more devastating for elderly people in America who can no longer drive due to poor eyesight when the only mode of transportation in a city is by car.
It wouldn’t take much investment (compared to pricy car infrastructure) to make many American cities bike friendly.
The GPS has to shut off when going faster than a certain speed or higher than a certain altitude. IIRC the GPS maker can decided which they want to follow, and most chose to stop working at high altitude. It’s possible but more difficult to find a GPS that will work with high altitude balloons.
Lots of smaller regional banks pay ATM fees, as they don’t want to run their own fleet of ATMs. And they have local branches when you need it, like for a cashiers check.
Paper ballot, electronic counting. Best of both worlds. You get a quick count, but also if there’s shadiness/hacking going on you can always recount the paper.
Some states seem to be moving towards absentee voting over the internet, which will be a mess when accusations of hacking start flying.
Voting over the internet? Oh dear... But it theoretically could be a use case for blockchain.
Still I don't get it why voting in the US is so complicated and difficult. Even India does a better job. There is also a reason why most other western countries have a paper ballot, they are harder to temper with.
> Voting over the internet? Oh dear... But it theoretically could be a use case for blockchain.
Upon deployment of such scheme, it will be quickly discovered - or claimed - that some of the voters had their voting software MITMed, or their computers hacked, or whatever.
With electronic voting, you have to secure the whole chain, starting from a person interacting with their device. It's not like finance, where you can paper over malware or direct attacks on people's devices through police investigations, reimbursements and insurance payouts. Mere accusation of a e-voting's equivalent to Zeus being deployed would call an election into question.
Maybe, but certainly not at a scale needed to influence the election outcome without anybody noticing. Voting over the internet is totally different in that regard.
It works perfectly well in the UK and is literally impossible to hack because all the candidates are in the room with the people counting the votes. There are also two people with the votes (in a sealed bag) at all time during transit
> but also if there’s shadiness/hacking going on you can always recount the paper.
It depends on the country, but typically you need some valid reason to require recounting. And "my favourite candidate got less votes than I expected" doesn't sound like a valid reason.
