The ticket prices start high and are gradually reduced at a set rate until they reach a pre-defined minimum. The idea being that scaplers can't profit off of purchasing early since the official clearinghouse is lowering the price all the time.

People have to make a judgement call on the value of the tickets and purchase at an appropriate time.

The assignment to match returns undefined. The value of match is null.

To be pedantic the assignment returns null (always returns the rvalue[1]), it's the const statement that produces undefined[2]

[1] https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-language-statem... [2] https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-language-statem...

And to be even more pedantic, the function works because it is applied on an event listener... When null[1] is evaluated (in the right side of the || of the conditional), it produces a TypeError... which in effect (due to no catch and evaluation continuing in a parent/event-driven scope) is essentially equivalent to an empty return in this specific context.

What fun! :-)

Edit: apparently as also mentioned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30268412

The pennies were in payment of his final paycheck. The suit is in regard to unrelated wage theft from unpaid overtime and discrimination/retaliation (presumably for reporting the wage theft), as well as failure to maintain required records.

The most jarring Dazzle camouflage[1] imaginable.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

Honestly I want to see this. Would your head hurt seeing it in person? Or would your eyes balance it out

To your point, I think that you could generate the duplicate geometry pretty easily but the issue would be making sure no overlapping sectors were visible at the same time, as that would cause glitches in the Build engine.

You might be able to subdivide the build engine's sectors into visleaves (borrowing terminology from Source) and clip all sectors in the mirror-verse according to the aperture + view-frustrum. To work correctly you'd need to do this every frame, probably an unthinkably huge task for the hardware at the time.

Unfortunately, they are being purchased by DISH network.

This way the driver can put mail in suburban mailboxes without leaving the seat (while driving on the right side of the road).

Yes, this is very much a "dad's in charge, mom said so" moment.

> they often backup everything in a central location like Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal which put everything in your Google account without any additional crypto layers

I don't know about the others but I don't think Signal does this. Signal offers the user the ability to backup their messages, and lets them password protect them, but the way you've written this implies Signal is uploading messages to Google of its own volition, unencrypted, which afaik is not the case.

Who decides that they are "different matters"?

The executive and then the courts, same people who decide what every law means.