I have two IB Strathmills in front of me from two different IBs (Whisky Broker and Cadenheads), they are 24/27 years old, I paid 78/112£, they are from one/three hogsheads. The latter was recommended by the man in the shop as exceptional, rich notes of pistachios and brownies, at the time I didn't know anything about Scotch and just bought it.
Since then I learned that especially IBs have good access to these 'no-name' malts from conglomerate-owned, speyside malt factories that mostly go into blends, don't have much of an OB lineup, and you can get them old, young or in sherry casks from IBs often for amazing prices.
However, there is a downside which is that these are not exactly known for their distillery character and if you go to an IB tasting where you are flooded with these they do appear very samey, and I feel for the person at SMWS having to hype up each bottle in a different way.
Anyway, these two, taste TOTALLY different. The 23 is a clean, smooth, malty, I struggle to come up with notes except that I would say this is a canonical old speyside. The 27 hits you with raw dough and yeast at the start and a very nutty finish, legit tasting pistacios and I am not someone who is liberal with tasting notes, 90% of the time I just say 'yup, this is whisky'.
The former is okay to have on the shelf but the latter I think is the reason why most enthusiasts get hung up on cask strength, single casks, to sometimes come across these weird, specific flavours.
So this is not really a classic review but it raises more a few questions for me and I am keen to hear what other have to say
Do IBs charge more for bottles they know taste good, or do they only charge based on a. specs b. what the market will bear c. the cost it took them to aquire. It appears to me for example North Star goes only by c, which is why sometimes they release stuff that is absurdly underpriced. He is just passing on the deal he got. If I look at much of whats in store at the smaller online retailers like whisky barrel, holy shit there are so many IBs that try to sell you a 10yo noname malt for 90£ and maybe just see if they get away with it. But I am wondering if one tastes a lot better because I paid a lot more (if they tasted the same I would have felt a bit ripped off).
What drives this huge variance in single cask taste, when whisky has identical specs (distillery, cask type, age, being the major ones)? I hear reviewers talk abou 'good casks', or 'quality casks' or '
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I noticed a trend that a lot of writers are using religion to serve as a basis for magic systems and not as the theological lens to view culture in a fantasy world.
But there’s nothing wrong with that, btw.
How many of you out there are using religion to showcase culture and provide no concrete evidence for the existence of your world’s deities leaving divine intervention up to interpretation by the world’s inhabitants?
I have no education in Finance whatsoever, I am just someone on the internet who likes maths and hard problems. Thus, I will also focus more on the maths side, because I am rather smooth regarding accounting, legal or trading topics.
This post is a little rushed. I wanted to be more thorough, but especially since u/gherkinit and u/Criand referred to u/Zinko83 (my brother in arms since the beginning of my quant journey; I do the math shit, he does the modeling using a commercial toolbox) and myself multiple times by now, the interest in my previous posts and our blowing-up inboxes prompted us to pump this out now. And while I am writing this, Zinko rushed on me as well. If you've read my Cheatsheet, please be aware that some of the opinions I expressed there I no longer consider to be perfectly accurate. I apologize that I wasn't really active on Reddit much, but I promise that I'll at least try to get back to everyone who contacted me or had questions since my last post.
This post will clean up with many beliefs I've seen apes express even until recently. However, it is not a bear thesis, so I guess no $1100 bounty for me. Instead, we believe that it can serve as a unifying theory for many idiosyncracies and weirdnesses we were able to observe.
You can find some of our sources at the end of this post.
If you are ape that cannot read, look for text in italics, at least until the GME section.
Introduction
Ever since the January Sneeze, many people wondered where short interest on the stock went, why there was this incredible open interest, especially in far OTM puts (but also calls), how HFs like Melvin Capital, who claimed to have closed their short positions, managed to sustain losses afterwards, and how a gigawhale like Citadel could be threatened by a short position in essentially one idiosyncratic stock.
It was speculated that this was due to naked short selling, and since there was a missing explanation for the far OTM puts it was speculated that these were used to hide naked shorts.
However, not-so-recent theories argued that SHFs were, in fact, not naked short, but unloaded their bags onto Market Makers and Prime Brokers instead. I believe that to be true and will also be providing a mechanism that allows them to stay naked based on deemed-to-own regulations.
Many of the things that happened this year can be explained by players like Citadel Advisors being short variance swaps. Variance swaps can explain pretty much the e
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Perhaps it’s because a relative mentioned when I was very young about flu vaccines once:
If everyone is using the game genie (cheat codes), the computer will eventually figure it out.
I’m vaccinated but not boosted for the record, and sort of sick to the stomach over countries getting their fourth and fifth boosters while others barely have the first.
Looking for a roguelike akin to TOME or DCSS — lots of class/race/ general build diversity — without all the random drops and minmaxing gear qualities.
Really enjoy TOME’s skill system in general, the different feels of all the classes and races, but I dislike the RNG of some builds that are reliant on certain equipment. Also really dislike having to find gear with +mag for prodigies, etc.
Havent played as much DCSS, because it just never had the same pull as TOME, but the ~3 hour game length would be fine as well as long as there’s lots of diversity.
Preference for tile sets as well but I don’t mind that much. Frogband for example though is very stressful on my eyes.
Thanks!
Every time there is a controversial winner, somebody posts "if you won, you deserve to win." There's a post on this sub at about 1000 upvotes in the past 24 hours suggesting this. I think it's bs, illogical, and ignorant of the nature of luck-based games with skill elements. I think nobody "deserves" to win. In the history of Survivor, I don't think there's been one player adept enough at the game where they'd win greater than 50% of the time if you played the season 10,000 times with various different tribal iterations, twists, immunity challenges, etc... There are thousands of different variables, both within the castaways control and completely out of their control, that affect who wins the game. Maybe there is such a thing as a player with the most merit in a season, but it'd be pretty hard to determine that without a sufficient sample size to observe their play. And even the player with the most merit probably only wins 1 out of 5 seasons they play.
This is not a shot at Erika. I think she played a smart strategic end game. But let's not pretend like being selected in the tribe that never went to Council wasn't great luck. That Naseer putting the team on his back when they wanted to throw a challenge to eliminate her wasn't great luck. That getting selected to use the time turn advantage wasn't great luck. That finding the advantage in the F5 immunity challenge despite being the last to solve the puzzle wasn't positive variance. There's lots of redeeming qualities of her game, but like every Survivor winner ever, luck was on her side. Every single winner could have a list like this. The king and queen of Survivor are no exception, they both had major luck in their finales alone.
This is why it's best to attempt to judge players in ranking's based on their strategic input, not necessarily the outcome of the season. Awful gameplay can lead to amazing results in the short-run, and great players can end up out the door pre-merge. The best Survivor player there is may not even have won a game.
Nobody deserves to win Survivor. There's no player on earth who would beat a field of 15 other players 50% of the time. Each start with a baseline of 6.25%. Maybe there are some people, when combined with certain casts, who can achieve as high a 20%-25% chance to win in the long-run... at most. The most comparable game to Survivor to me is poker tournaments. You have to balance the risk vs reward of making it further in the game, while also
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So, do any of you people wonder why the God of Basketball was written out of the Regular Show animated television series after he made his fourth and latest official episode appearance in "Dodge This"? He never appeared again after that episode and he was also never mentioned in any future episodes. Strangely, he wasn't even brought back for the Regular Show series finale with almost all of the Park Crew's friends and allies to help the Park Crew battle Pops' younger evil twin brother Anti-Pops and Internet/Streaming. The Regular Show animated television series' production crew didn't even bother to explain why they chose to write the God of Basketball out of the series after he made his final appearance in "Dodge This".
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Instead of telling yourself:
“I can’t have this bowl of ice cream.”, which increases the temptation for the junk food, you tell yourself:
“I CAN eat this ice cream. I just need to finish these berries first. “
This decreases the “value” of the junk food because with this mindset, nothing is off-limits. And you will end up eating less junk food because your stomach is full from the healthy stuff.
Additional tip: if you’re not a fan of fruits and vegetables, you can also try downing a cup of water, or drinking a low calorie broth soup beforehand.
I just realized The Incredibles is the only superhero movie I can come up with that does not attempt at all to explain the origins of its characters' superpowers. Are there any others? I mean there has to be, seeing how many there are, but despite having seen a lot of them, I can't think of one. Maybe some side characters, like the Flash in Justice League, but it seems very rare that a movie has a main character with superpowers without feeling the need to explain how they got them. I guess it would be harder to relate to them without an origin story, and maybe The Incredibles got away with it because it's animation and didn't need to be as relatable. Not in the sense that the world feels believable, at least.
Isn't it ridiculous that the production crew never bothered to give an explanation for Owlowiscious being written out of the series after the fifth season?
a) X: amount of damaged parts = 0,1,2,3
Expextation(X) = ~0.088; standard deviation = ~0.2906. Both are correct.
b) A damaged part costs them 80$.
So to my logic, X: costs of resulting damage = 0,80,160,240.
If I keep calculating with those numbers, I get a wrong result.
Can someone help me please
Boba Showing That He Still Needs Healing
I've realized from this first episode that Boba didn't get the proper treatment for his injuries due to the Sarlaac until taking over Jabba's palace and using the Bacta Pod. This explains his underperformance in combat, he's still suffering from the physical trauma of the Sarlaac. Examples of the underperformance are scenes like fighting the Tusken in the flashback (especially understandable since he was starved and dehydrated), fighting the assassins this first episode, and fighting Koska Reeves in Mando season 2. The fact that he still fought so well in Mando despite his injuries means once he's fully healed he will be restored to his utterly unmatched combat skills that we see in the comics and other material.
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