https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction

There are numerous formats of auction. I don’t think a Vickrey auction is what they did, but it is an example of a sealed auction format that is well supported as legitimately and efficiently maximizing value for the seller.

OK, how about Glass and Steele as another suggestion for a fantasy enjoyer looking to add some mystery?

It’s a story of Wild West cowboys coming to Victorian England in search of a magician, while magic is functionally illegal because the respective guilds ban magicians from membership. I don’t want to spoil anything by going too far explaining the premise, but there’s a core investigation each book that expands their understanding of magic in the process.

The magic doesn’t have the depth of epic fantasy like Sanderson, but it is unique and fits well with the premise. This series (and some other CJ Archer stuff) is another of the ones I come back to every once in a while. It’s definitely on the lighter read side, but I enjoy the worlds she builds and her characters.

But mystery is my jam, so if you want about 100 long light mystery series, I’m your man lol.

Why don’t Americans…

My guess is that he’s a non-native speaker used to a different sentence structure and this is what he meant.

You don’t get a pass on this time until you fix this time by publicly terminating your relationship and paying all the costs you created, including lost business.

By authorizing them as a legal representative, their actions are your actions. Recovering from them is your issue, not the victim’s.

When you hire someone to act on your behalf, all of their actions are your fault. They are you.

I’m not saying this shouldn’t be a huge warning sign not to hire this company to everyone else. I’m saying the only possible way to not be the bad guy would have been a statement “we terminated our arrangement immediately and will pay all of the costs of our mistake”.

They did it on Funko’s behalf, at their direction.

It’s perfectly fine to also blame the partner, but Funko ultimately bears 100% of the responsibility for the actions they instigated.

Cut it in half for 2x speed and I’d normally guess about a month? But holidays coming is going to change my schedule, so probably mid-January-ish. We’ll see lol.

Miss Fortune is complete and utter nonsense, and I love it for that. Not many do nonsensical well. Stuff where the creators can just be free and toss sanity to the wind and still have it work is some of my favorite storytelling, whether that’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Psych, South Park, Janet Evanovich, whatever else. So many swing and miss, but when it hits, it’s magical.

There was an introduction to the version of Elantris I listened to where an early member of a writing group (or a teacher or something) was really confused about all his premises for stories just being characters in a setting. They had to “make him” get to the point where the world is at stake, because he was so focused just on the interactions between people. Then, in his notes at the end (of the later edition, with knowledge of its success), he wrote about how much he valued that it worked so well in a world of magic where most of the book minimally interacts with it. You can see that in every scene he writes. They’re all just so natural, independent of the stakes of the story.

But Stormlight feels like his real masterpiece. There are so many characters that matter, and on top of that he blends in elements of his other works so seamlessly

Eh, was a little under $100 for something around 375 hours worth of book. It is a lot, but I don’t usually see prices at that point for audiobooks I know I like, and I really like when I can read whole series in a row. I’ve read something like 20 of the Miss Fortune as ebooks, but I’m way slower that way because I have way more time I can listen.

I like the character. The books are just a little brief, especially at the endings, compared to my preference, but I think that’s a style choice from the types of stories it’s inspired by. She’s a little bit crazy, but in the way that maybe we’re all a little crazy. She’s just direct about it at times. Overall, they’re enjoyable enough. It probably won’t make my bookshelf, but I would guess that it helped inspire some of the stuff that I prefer a little more, and I would potentially read them again at some point.

Wind and Truth baby. Approaching the halfway point. It’s paced excellently. It’s impressive how he makes every scene have gravity without weighing the story down.

Still reading Altered Traits physically. It’s more biographical than I prefer, but it did inspire me to make an effort at meditating. All the (valid) short term/small sample stuff aside, it’s impressive how much a minute of simple breathing exercises at the beginning and on break of my workday changed how I felt at the end of the day yesterday. I was thinking of exploring meditation through yoga, but with more consideration I think finding the right kata from a martial art would suit me better.

Jesus. I thought it was for recording, at least.

I never once got a useful result from their search. It was the worst thing I’ve ever seen.

To be fair there’s no possible way they could downgrade from the old version.

Yeah they’re really bad and the percentage that are actually useful is pretty low. (They also have a bunch of outright affiliate spam).

I’m honestly not sure why I haven’t blocked the site because it’s very rarely worth it.

It’s for sure not a legitimate process.

DMCA doesn’t entitle you to force a service that complies with DMCA requests down.

Catch: it’s not GTA6 and is some silly parody nonsense.

It sounds like they served the time a long time ago. However, having a criminal record can still matter, so they’re attempting to go back and take them off the books for the people affected.

The actual link.

I had no real reason to click through, but the two links between said basically nothing, and the key findings and suggestions in the first couple pages are pretty easy to follow.

I thought the way they intended to handle it was pretty reasonable, but the idea that there is an actual obligation to scan content is disgusting.

to identify them (just like everyone else’s numbers)