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Hmm, I assumed it was per capita household debt, but it's unclear from the chart.

I be surprised if, say, Beirut wasn’t in there. Or Caracas.

I wouldn't be surprised if the top 10 debt per capita cities in the world were in the US tbh

At the risk of chiding, this should probably be "American cities".

This data is complete dogshit if you didn’t exclude early and waitlist students

What's your r^2 exactly?

Contrast is terrible, words are hard to see.

"Major American Cities"*

New York as well

Can I get this as a Lego chart?

Perhaps that's true in the U.K. but being consistently profitable from Horse Racing is a very real thing in the U.S. The biggest issue for most is that the smaller casual player is not betting in a manner to potentially provide consistent long-term profits, nor are they accessing information/bankroll that the larger syndicates and groups have.

Edit:A bookie has no reason to automatically restrict you from betting because you win consistently, there are PLENTY of other people who lose consistently to pay you off.

San Francisco is both a city and a county. Doesn’t that distort its ranking vs other cities?

Can anyone do a color analysis of the history of WoW raids?

Were getting another "Red" raid and it seems like every single expansion has at least one entirely red color raid

Yet they still aggressively beg me to donate after never donating in 35 years.

i’d imagine that people would prefer to buy other meats rather than pay through the nose for chicken. chicken has always been the “plain and boring” meat (though i make it taste good), and if it were to get expensive, i’d just buy something else

Funny thing is investigation is being blocked at a international level

Whenever the fuck you want.

Your house, your rules.

I would call it a beeswarm plot. It’s essentially a type of dot plot, and can be thought of as a non-summarized version of a boxplot, histogram, or violin plot (non summarized meaning you plot each individual observation rather than a summary metric like median, total, density, etc.).

This is a great analogy. What we saw in the past three waves was a handful of failures that triggered a "flight to safety". Customers started moving their money to safer places; i.e. larger banks or liquid assets. That left smaller banks without the required capital reserves, which led to more failures and more withdrawals.

I'm glad that you have enough discipline and treat the losses as price of admission! But unfortunately not everyone can manage that.

Take your example, if someone comes out ahead from the first two days by betting on the favourites, what are the odds that they think "well that's easy profit, I'll just bet on all the favourites from now on!" and proceed to lose all their winnings (and potentially more).

I imagine there could be something to this. They have more time to develop and fine tune the odds. More time to gather information used to determine the odds.

Of course if you know the ins and outs of the horse racing industry you can make much more informed choices and enforce much more sophisticated strategies than the wider public. But consistently successfully profiting from gambling with bookmakers is not a real thing. They would have restricted you well before you can consistently profit from it.

Because consistently successfully profiting through handicapping Horse Racing means not following any of these "strategies"

So what you're saying is that if I bet favorites for the first two festival days, I'll come out ahead. Shut up and take my money!

Seriously though, I will go to the track occasionally. Admission is nearly free, I'm allowed to bring a cooler with beers and sandwiches onto the apron, and there's a section for smoking (typically, cigars). Placing a small wager is part of the fun. I don't mind that there's a 17% rake (here). It's a small price to pay for a fantastic day out that allows me to embrace the socks-and-sandals phase of life.

"Did" and "should" are two different things. I took mine down right away, but I maintain that it is proper to keep them up till January 6.