I'm a decently experienced Dominion player (I have the Base set, Intrigue, Seaside, Prosperity and Hinterlands is on it's way) and I'm wondering what would be a good next expansion for beating big-money style strategies?  Any thoughts?
Our group has determined that buying (almost exclusively) money and points is the way to go.  Most kingdom cards are ignored, or are bought very sparingly. This has lead to games feeling 'samey' and has taken a lot of the fun out for us.  What strategies should we use to counter ""?  Or are house rules needed here?
Inductive proof that there are infinitely many pairs of consecutive powerful integers? Is there a term for switching syllables of words? Primary question: A common speaking mistake is to exchange syllables of words, saying "It's trace rhyme!" instead of saying "It's race time!", or pronouncing "kickin' chackatory" instead of "chicken cacciatore." Is there an existing name in poetry, linguistics, or English studies for switching syllables of (quasi-)consecutive words? I am not especially interested in the case when switching syllables results in interpretable homonyms or portmanteaus, like in the first example.  Secondary question: if not, what would you call it?  Tertiary question: is there somewhere a (playful?) taxonomy of fruitful or unfruitful lingual aberrations? biblatex – et al. beginning from second citation? Basically all I need to know is how I can use "et. al" beginning from the second citation of a source. I am using the following  \usepackage[ natbib=true, style=authoryear ]{biblatex}   I need citations to look like this:  First citation of a source     Drobetz, Schillhofer, and Zimmermann (2004)   Second and further citations     Drobetz et al. (2004)   Right now, every citation looks like the first one. With the biblatex option maxcitenames I can only adjust all citations and not all but the first one. Any help? How can we replace $\sup$ with $\max$ in definition of subordinate norm for finite-dimensional vector space? Erf as term for plot of land in a town or city. Is this word only used in southern Africa? The Free Dictionary website states and so does Wikipedia:     erf [ɜːf]   n pl erven [ˈɜːvən]   (Engineering / Civil Engineering) South African a plot of land, usually urban, marked off for building purposes   [Afrikaans]   The term erf is used in legal documentation and technical English throughout South Africa and Namibia, maybe even further afield in the region.  Is it used anywhere else, except maybe the Dutch/Flemish regions in Europe, where I assume the term originated?  An example:      The client purchased Erf 132, Windhoek for a large sum of money. He intends to build a house on this erf.   The capitalisation of "Erf 132" is commonplace, since it is a definition of a location. This is similar to capitalisation of towns or cities. I find it slightly awkward, but that is how it is done. I made a plot but it's not at all what I want. There are two things I'm having trouble with: 1.) The bars should be at the bottom, but there's a space between them and the x-axis. 2.) E1/E4, E2/E5 and E3/E6 should have the same color.  Here's a picture of how it is and how I want it below:   And here's my code:  \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots,pgfplotstable} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ symbolic x coords={E1, E4 (dyn.), E2, E5 (dyn.), E3, E6 (dyn.)}, xtick=data, width=\linewidth, height=6cm ] \addplot[ybar,fill=blue, bar width = 1cm] coordinates {     (E1,   8)     (E2,  15)     (E3,   50)     (E4 (dyn.), 4)     (E5 (dyn.), 17)     (E6 (dyn.), 40)  }; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   I hope you can help me. Thanks. I have a 10 stock portfolio and considering market conditions that are on the rise when this question in being asked, a few of them did hit their 52-week high price.  I would like to call myself a long term investor and I do not like to trade so much. If I take "Buy low sell high" as gospel then this is in my opinion a good selling position.  On one hand, I think I should lock my profit because stocks don't hit a 52-week high every day, but on the other hand, there is nothing wrong with the company and it is very well positioned to go up even further.  Any suggestions? How to calculate polygon areas and perimeters using QGIS? Key Derivation Functions vs. Password Hashing Schemes Key derivation functions, such as HKDF (standardized in ), are meant to stretch some initial keying material having enough entropy, like a Diffie-Hellman shared value, into one or more strong cryptographic secret keys.   Password-hashing schemes, such as the  winner , are meant to hash usually low-entropy passwords with the goal of making the hash digest inversion as costly as possible for an adversary with respect to CPU and memory consumption, as well as parallelization.  Is it exact to consider that password-hashing schemes are actually key derivation functions specialized for low-entropy inputs? Or is there any other essential difference of theoretical nature between these two types of cryptographic schemes? ReadOnlyCollection or IEnumerable for exposing member collections? Is there any reason to expose an internal collection as a ReadOnlyCollection rather than an IEnumerable if the calling code only iterates over the collection?  class Bar {     private ICollection&lt;Foo&gt; foos;      // Which one is to be preferred?     public IEnumerable&lt;Foo&gt; Foos { ... }     public ReadOnlyCollection&lt;Foo&gt; Foos { ... } }   // Calling code:  foreach (var f in bar.Foos)     DoSomething(f);   As I see it IEnumerable is a subset of the interface of ReadOnlyCollection and it does not allow the user to modify the collection. So if the IEnumberable interface is enough then that is the one to use. Is that a proper way of reasoning about it or am I missing something?  Thanks /Erik I am applying for a UK visa. Can I show 5 months worth of bank statements for the UK visa, or is 6 months a requirement, as its not mentioned on their website?  There are no appointment dates showing in April. Is there any time limit in which we have to book an appointment after paying the fee? Punctuations with relative pronouns Sogou is a Chinese search engine, which can search text, images, music and maps.  Is a comma required before "which" in the above sentence? a) There's a radially symmetric charge density $\rho(r)$ centered around the origin. Determine the dipolemoment of that charge density. b) Let $\rho(r)$ be an arbitrary charge density now. Under what circumstances does the dipole moment of the displaced charge density  $\rho '(\vec{r}) = \rho (\vec{r}-\vec{b})$ differ from the one not displaced at all.  Here were my ideas so far: a) Just thinking about the situation it has to be zero, right? I mean, since there's no real dipole. But how do I show that mathematically? I was thinking of just going like this (it may be wrong): Let the charge density be $\rho (r)=kr$, then we can get the charge q by integrating: $$q=4\pi \int_0^R kr\cdot r^2dr=\pi k R^4$$ I'm looking at the charge distribution as a spherical electron cloud with radius $R$. Then, since $p=qd$ and $d$ is zero because there are no two different charges the dipole moment is zero. Is that sufficient as an answer? b) I don't know how to approach this one. My guess is that its dipole moment is also zero because we're only looking at a displacement here. Anyone got any idea? I would appreciate any advice on this. I am trying to create something similar to this in Tikz:    I have been looking at using the \shadedraw macro, but have not found a way to create the color spectrum.  It seems possible if I stack multiple gradient-shaded rectangles on top of each other, but I would rather not use such a lengthy and ugly solution.  Is there a way to recreate this PH-scale image in Tikz, ideally using few rectangles?  (Note: the number labels are not necessary, as they will be replaced with horizontal lines anyway.) Proof that Limit of the Log is the Log of the Limit Proof that Limit of the Log is the Log of the Limit. What is the intuition behind this statement? Question about Conditional Expectation Installing "firmware-b43-installer" offline How can I disable landscape mode in Android? How can I disable landscape mode for some of the views in my Android app? How did the Wampa freeze Luke's feet into the ceiling of the cave? How do I write a mathematical equation for ARIMA (2,1,0) x (0,2,2) period 12