Why are people still using Facebook? Because other people are, and they use it as their medium to schedule events and coordinate activities.

90% of my Facebook activity is devoted to participation in a handful of secret/private groups, and the other 10% is responding to event invites -- some of which are "go, no-go," others are FCFS based on responses to the invites.

Also, I mostly DNGAF about Facebook (or Google, or whomever) knowing what flavor potato chip I prefer because I used my club card at the store. Google gave me $15.98 on their Opinion Rewards platform for knowing even MORE about me. Whee!

Your fake incredulity aside, not everyone is so lucky as to be planning for retirement.

Some people simply hope to die peacefully at their desk or behind their counter.

Uh, no.

While playing the math is true for a limited subset of hands -- do I call a single bet on the turn (with one card to come) while drawing to the nut flush with 7 clean outs (non-board-pairing flush cards) every time the turn bet is less than 1/7th of the expected pot size? -- absolutely.

...but you can't possibly make solely math-based decisions for every hand. You can't just "math" to decide if TPTK is good on the river or not. You can't "math" to decide if your opponent is bluffing. [You can incorporate math in your decision for both of these things, but you can't use math and math alone to play poker.]

Ditto. Leased our Leaf and our Fusion Energi.

Also, the lease specials on the Leaf were pretty much a no-brainer for us.

Which new $30,000 luxury cars do you speak of?

Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't the Volt just qualify for only a portion of the credit? $2500 plus, with a 16-17kWH battery, another $1251 for about $4000?

The Bolt should qualify for the entire $7500.

Neat idea, but nearly every major manufacturer offers fully electric vehicles now.

They're just as happy to sell them as they are gas cars.

Insightful, I see...

So, ~$35,000 base (TFA), minus the federal credit puts the car around the same price as the $27,000 TDI, albeit with a requirement of having paid enough taxes the last year to claim the credit.

If you can get 55mpg out of diesel, you're paying about $2.30/gal (down over a dollar in the last year) or a bit over 4 cents mile. Assuming the Bolt has similar miles per kWh as other electrics, it too is going to get 4 miles to the 12.5c US average kWh, which costs a bit over 3 cents per mile.

So, yes, you only save $155/year in fuel costs over the most efficient gas car on the road. Your "gas station" moves to your house (plus any public location with chargers and front-row preferrential parking), you probably gain access to HOV lanes, and as long as you live in a part of the world that doesn't just burn coal for electricity, you pollute less too.

I, for one, enjoy unlimited HOV access while saving money and polluting less.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Any good poker play knows that "playing the opponent" is only a small part of playing poker.

What do any of those things have to do with limit hold'em?

Poppycock. Pure nonsense.

Another bot with the same 3 x 10^14 possible decisions could beat it over time based on play-style alone.

What's your decision tree say to do here when you're check-raised? Oh, it says fold? I've discovered that? Guess what happens now...

"Tells," for short, are hardly the end-all be-all of poker play.

Further, a well written poker robot would bluff a certain percentage of hands.

My only objection with the computer picking the best play strategy for 3 x 10^14 possible decisions is that in exactly the same situation, the right move would be, often, to make different choices, especially based on the makeup of the table, how your previous hands played, how the table reacted to those hands, etc. "Regardless of what its opponent does" leaves me skeptical.

I have no doubt that this can beat the field and win at poker. Bots have been doing that forever.

...but the right play in a limit game may be to 3-bet bluff or check-raise opponents based entirely on who they are or how they play. The entire idea that this bot is unbeatable, and a different bot with the same 3 x 10^14 decision tree and a different play-style (LAG/TAG) couldn't out-maneuver this bot is absurd. It's pure hubris by the team.

Good.

$5M is a lot, but I've long suggested that any significant amount of BTC be stored on a printout in a safe, with a backup in a safe deposit box.

Can those bitcoin stealing malwares pickpocket my wallet from a printout in a manila envelope in my safe?

If I had millions of USD in BTC, I'd have to consider having several offline wallets.