asciilifeform: i thought this was kindergarten basics.
asciilifeform: legit insurance is for things that are 1) quantifiable risks that 2) one isn't likely to silently arrange and then laugh all the way to the bank.
asciilifeform: would you still feel that you got your money's worth?
asciilifeform: or say, he decides to play by picking legal moves from an rng.
asciilifeform: you paid for a kasparov game, presumably, not a reddit game
asciilifeform: you ask why, he tells you 'that's my style now'
asciilifeform: and you find out that he was getting reddit wankers' moves in a spy earphone
asciilifeform: idea is, you're paying him (or pick another favourite) to get a real feel for the style
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what would you think if you had paid a little for, say, kasparov to play a game with you, and found out that he's taking a vote from web wankers as to each move instead of playing?
asciilifeform: sort of like the legendary programmer who secretly outsourced his job to chinese slaves.
asciilifeform: granted i don't know the sport, but presumably that wasn't what they normally agree to?
asciilifeform: without doing anything to the original (stateful!) charge IC
asciilifeform: what the chinese normally do is spot-weld new Li cells into an old battery
asciilifeform: maybe i'm just unlucky, but they never get the charge controller (aka 'fuel gauge') right.
asciilifeform: pankkake: i bought dozens of aftermarket batteries for various gadgets over the years, and not one had anything like the performance of the original.
