EPT[Patch 4.14] Gnar General Discussion - Page 52
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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kongoline
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On August 22 2014 06:18 mr_tolkien wrote: Turn on LoL. Ready to smack faces. Ranked disabled. WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. i cant even play normals wtf, how long is is supposed to last? | ||
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iCanada
Canada10660 Posts
On August 22 2014 06:29 JimmiC wrote: In Canada we have the brutal cold, that comes every winter for long stretches, AND we are not close to servers (in some places we may be fairly close but most not) AND we pay significantly more for franchised food AND worse then all that, we pay double what you pay for booze. So excuse me if I'm a little salty at the "poor" guy living in paradise with his slightly high ping! That's not even the half of it. We pay the most in developed world for internet, cable and phones. | ||
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FinestHour
United States18466 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Mikau
Netherlands1446 Posts
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iCanada
Canada10660 Posts
Only place in NA with lower taxes is Florida. Don't pin you're tax bill on Canada man, it's not the feds bending you over the barrel, it's your province. | ||
Gorsameth
Netherlands21351 Posts
On August 22 2014 07:06 Mikau wrote: I like how the Canadians, who live in the country with the best standards of living by pretty much by any metric are complaining in this thread. your confusing Canada with Scandinavia. | ||
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Goumindong
United States3529 Posts
On August 22 2014 03:41 Sufficiency wrote: If you want I can try to compute the best linear combination for k d a for predicting win/loss over millions of games. Won't work because of the aforementioned endogeneity problems. You need an instrumental variable and you aren't going to find one. Edit: the guy said homoskedasticity but that is a desirable property. Endogeneity is what he described with regards to k/d/a data. He was thinking of heterskedasticity for his weather data (which isn't much of a concern except that it increases the size of standard errors when we correct for it) | ||
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Mikau
Netherlands1446 Posts
Hence the "pretty much". Whenever they study these things it's pretty much always Scandinavia+Canada > Netherlands > rest of Western Europe/USA > shitty parts of the world | ||
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Lmui
Canada6208 Posts
On August 22 2014 06:43 iCanada wrote: That's not even the half of it. We pay the most in developed world for internet, cable and phones. I live in Vancouver, BC: Internet - ~55 a month iirc - 15mbps down, 1.0 up. I'm getting ripped for this but there really isn't any better option. Cable - Satellite - I don't use it. Phones - Landline - ~25/mo? Phones - Mobile - On a corporate plan atm so 55 for 6gb data and unlim talk/text - probably would be around $120 for this otherwise. So QQ. On the bright side though, my taxes do pay for good healthcare, parks, and all the other goodies that I take advantage of rather frequently. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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iCanada
Canada10660 Posts
On August 22 2014 07:30 JimmiC wrote: I'm an Albertan as well, I don't think you are taking into account all the taxes we pay. Income, GST, Gas, booze, Property, so on. Not to mention all the taxes we pay after the income tax are on our "after tax" money so it's even more brutal. I alone pay almost 6000 in property tax. Canadians are taxed to death, as Albertans we are lucky compared to other provinces, but not compared to americans, it is one of the reasons pro Athletes like to stay stateside. The true tax rates are not close. You realize pro athletes are taxed higher in every state except Florida, right? | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Usagi
Spain1647 Posts
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
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Mylax
Germany21 Posts
And why wouldn't it work to find the best linear combination to predict the outcome of the games? What is the endogeneity problem you are talking about? It's obvious that the KDA is correlated with the outcome of the game. Are you saying that the KDA is correlated with the role you play and therefore under/over estimates the "real" significance of KDA in relation to outcome of the games? That only makes sense if the role you play is correlated with the outcome of the games. But we are talking about aggregated data, so I don't quiet understand your point. | ||
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IamPryda
United States1186 Posts
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On August 22 2014 07:50 Mylax wrote: Why would you even want to analyze stuff like KDA and DF? It has no influence on your decision making whatsoever. And why wouldn't it work to find the best linear combination to predict the outcome of the games? What is the endogeneity problem you are talking about? It's obvious that the KDA is correlated with the outcome of the game. Are you saying that the KDA is correlated with the role you play and therefore under/over estimates the "real" significance of KDA in relation to outcome of the games? That only makes sense if the role you play is correlated with the outcome of the games. But we are talking about aggregated data, so I don't quiet understand your point. Here's one thing you can do. Hypothetically say for a game of 30 minutes to 35 minutes long, Katarina has a kda of 5 when she wins and 3 when she loses. Then if you lose as Kat with 5 kda you can sort of say 'oh gee, I did well this game but my team too heavy'. Again this is just a hypothesis. Not sure if it will work well at all. | ||
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Terranasaur
United States2085 Posts
On August 22 2014 07:45 Usagi wrote: Pro athletes surely all have some sort of company in Delaware that then routes their earnings to uruguay... why pay low taxes when you can pay close to nothing if you have the right people managing your fortune... League Rules (mostly due to salary caps) in every american sports league with which I am familiar prevent this from happening. Players can only receive salaried compensation from teams. They can't funnel this sort of thing through shell corporations. There was a controversy in recent years when Andrei Kirilenko (NBA basketball player) signed a contract with a team with a Russian owner (I forget which, think it was the Nets) for a salary that many people perceived was below his market value. There was much speculation at the time that he was also getting some Ruples on the side. Anyway, most of these guys just claim their income in Nevada where there isn't any income tax. No need to route to the caymans. | ||
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