That is absolutely incorrect. Heavy underdogs in the group stages of this world cup had frequently had moneylines of +1300 and higher (ex Netherlands vs Austrailia). There is NEVER an NFL game in a typical season where the moneyline (ie without pointspread) on the underdog will pay out that high. So, the is a much SMALLER likelihood of the underdog snatching a surprise win.
Many pro sports leagues like the NFL are designed to have parity amongst the teams, to make it more exciting. There is no way to ensure parity in national teams. If there was an international American football competition, it would have even less parity than international basketball competitions (where the US is extremely heavily favored in nearly every game).
Thanks for this, I had considered using celery for a recent project but ultimately backed away because I got the feeling it was more trouble than it was worth. As a point of reference would you say the learning curve for a celery setup is similar to that of django? Not that theres anything terribly hard about django, but Id agree that its probably overkill if youre relatively new to python and are just looking for a quick way to produce some html with no intent on developing it further.
I wouldn't say Celery's learning curve is steeper than Django's, but it definitely seems like overkill for your case. If you need to do some time-consuming action periodically (and making an HTTP request by hand each time is not an option), then you could just use cron for the start if your project is relatively simple. And if you literally need to just produce some HTML when asked for, then why are you considering using an async task processor such as Celery?
I just started using Celery this week for the first time, to handle parallel processing of thousands of tasks in a data pipeline.
Three days in, I can tell you that it does work, but it does take a lot of searching through the docs to optimize. It's very hard to run with class objects too, so we just created long-scripted functions for the worker.
Even now I'm trying to figure out why the worker is unable to refresh access tokens after 60 minutes, and tempted to just have it run as root.
Django is kind of slow learning curve, but understandable. Celery for me was quicker, but more along the lines of: follow the instructions, and google / stack overflow until it works. A lot less understanding involved.
>> That disqualifies a good 99.9999% of the world from being eligible to bid.
Yes, however it doesn't disqualify a single person/party who actually has the capability (and interest) to purchase the minimum block of 3,000 btc (~$1.5M dollars).
UberX is significantly (40%-50%?) more than a NYC yellow cab. Its basically $6 base for uberX (versus $2.50 for yellow cab), $.75/minute for in-traffic in uberX (versus $.50 for yellow cab). Also uber's threshold speed for traffic is much higher than NYC's (below 11mph = traffic for uber, vs below 6mph = traffic for yellow cab), which means that more often than not you are in this (more expensive) price tier. Its hard to average over 11mph if you are going cross town in Manhattan.
The root of the problem is that with the current setup, theres a huge 'luck factor' into whether or not your Show HN post most makes it off of 'New' and onto the first page. Its often 1 or 2 votes that can mean the difference between a post reaching the front page where it can then go on to recieve double/triple digit upvotes, versus remaining on 'New' and only getting 2-3 votes (in which case someone searching 'Show HN' thinks to themself 'well that post must not be very good, since it has so few votes'.
Of course the same could be said about news articles, however people dont spend hundreds of hours writing a news article (in fact it's rarely even the poster's work at all). While it would certainly be unwise to rely on a Show HN post as the sole means to launch your project, it certainly one of the top 5 traffic generators when you are just getting off the ground, and it sucks when your thread falls into obscurity because you didnt get that one extra vote to move you off of 'New' onto the first page.
That's why the "smart" thing for someone to do is to game the system, either through ring voting, asking friends to upvote on twitter. I can't blame them, thigh it's technically a bit borderline. I guess it's more legit for show hn than blogspam though.
I really think that if you have a group of friends who are regular participants of HN, the ringvoting detector doesnt come into play. (not that I've tried)
But maybe it's "okay" if the people are actually regulars? Hard to say since I'm not a mod here.
