I'm a newbie to Magic: the Gathering, although the game is about 30 years old. I was wondering how to come up with a simple, adaptive handicapping system for beginners, casual players, and others who fear not having a chance to win against more experienced players or more powerful decks ( Read more... )

yeah, I quit work early, been playing with toys, going for new records on my toy spreadsheet,

but,

my newest porn studio find, they have a "Twink Channel", and, I'm, hey, ... they keep algorithming me with porn

Hedge funds are buying up catalogues of old music. Streaming music services license tens of millions of songs from the past. Algorithms give you more of what you already liked. New artists can't compete with this relentlessly digitized/monetized past-iche, dead artists don't need to eat or pay rent, your fractional pennies fall into the void.

Everyone will have to make up their own minds about whether their past consumer purchases still count as their own, with the knowledge that Google, after having scanned their email, thought there was a good chance they might have wanted to have bought what they ended up buying, and sold its advertising space accordingly.