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HandwovenConsensus

@ HandwovenConsensus @lemm.ee

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  • Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend!

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  • You're getting massively down voted. I really feel like this is a huge obstacle to mitigating poverty in the first world. People focus on appearances; getting rid of things that look poor even when they actually help people.

    Yes, it's upsetting to see people taking such desperate measures. But those measures were taken in response to desperate need. If you fixed the need, then they would go away on their own. If you need to apply force to remove them, then you have not.

    It's the same reason people oppose public transit, dense housing, and informal businesses. Things that are just part of life in the third world. But wealthy and middle class westerners have decided on behalf of poor westerners that poor westerners are too good for them.

  • Can you rotate an apple in your head? (by Shen)

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  • I realized after reading about people with aphantasia that what I do is kind of a combination of visualization and conceptualization. If you ask me to imagine a cow, I'll tend to visualize the cow itself, but it doesn't come with a field for the cow to stand in. The cow is just in the concept of a place. That is, until I concentrate on visualizing details of the place, at which point I'll probably lose the visual of the cow. Like, it's still there, it's just become the concept of a cow.

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  • The irony being that Russia would have worked fine if the Right wasn't in their pocket.

  • ... would YOU download a plant?

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  • What I mean is once you've made the decision to do this instead of buying, it doesn't matter which shop you don't buy from.

  • ... would YOU download a plant?

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  • Why? It's not like you're costing the shop money by taking trash off the floor. If anything you're more likely to spend money at the shop you do it at for supplies and such.

  • Both "200" and "160" are 2 minutes in microwave math

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  • 1:60 = one minute and 60 seconds, or two minutes.

    120 would be parsed as one minute and 20 seconds, or 80 seconds.

    Took me a bit to get too.

  • What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ?

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  • I fixed it lol

  • What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ?

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  • I still don't get why it's called that.

  • What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ?

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  • That is such a funny mental image.

  • What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ?

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  • "Drink" is such a weird word in how it has both a general and specific meaning, but no other word for the general meaning is commonly used.

    "Drink your milk! No drinking until you're 21!"

  • What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ?

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  • My parents didn't specifically tell me if Santa Clause was real or make-believe. They wanted me to come to my own conclusion, I guess. My dad is a rationalist person, and my mom's from a culture that doesn't traditionally celebrate Christmas.

    So what I believed was that the appearance of presents on Christmas was an unsolved mystery, and Santa Clause was just a hypothesis to explain it.

    I suspected the real explanation probably involved the tree working as an antenna for some kind of cosmic energy that triggered the appearance of presents. Perhaps in ancient and more superstitious times they discovered this phenomenon by accident and continued to put up the tree ever since.

  • Biden's clemency for Kids-for-Cash judge undeserved, some say

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  • From what I understand, it was a blanket pardon for anyone who met certain criteria, and this judge just happened to meet them.

  • Should Democrats also gerrymander blue states to counterbalance any advantage that republicans have due to the gerrymandering in red states?

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  • What they should do is push for voting reform. There are tons of proposals for voting systems that solve the two party stalemate and the issue of gerrymandering.

    If they really wanted to stop the insanity of the Republican party, that's what they would do. Until they do, they are complicit in it.

  • Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?

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  • Well, I only know how it tends to work in China, where the traditional calendar is used for cultural events such as festivals, while the Gregorian calendar is used for just about everything else, including domestic business. I assumed it's the same in most modern cultures with a different traditional calendar, but maybe I'm wrong.

  • Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?

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  • Is it? I know some cultures have a traditional lunar calendar, but I didn't know there were many that didn't also use the Gregorian calendar for business.

    Which cultures have the seven day week without the solar year?

  • Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game?

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  • Not quite the same, since in my scenario the player loses everything after a loss while in the St. Petersburg Paradox it seems they keep their winnings. But it does seem relevant in explaining that expected value isn't everything.

  • Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game?

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  • I'm looking at the game as a whole. The player has a 1 in 8 chance of winning 3 rounds overall.

  • Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game?

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  • But the odds of the player managing to do so are proportionate. In theory, if 8 players each decide to go for three rounds, one of them will win, but the losings from the other 7 will pay for that player's winnings.

    You're right that the house is performing a Martingale strategy. That's a good insight. That may actually be the source of the house advantage. The scenario is ideal for a Martingale strategy to work.

  • Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game?

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  • Well, they have to start over with a $1 bet.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Is it actually very common for people to have violent sadistic fantasies, possibly involving actual people in their lives?

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    How am I supposed to decide who to vote for in local elections?

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    When people talk about returning the cart after shopping, does that include putting it in a corral, or do you have to take it all the way to the front of the store to be a good person?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's a piece of classical music that everyone knows but most people don't know they know?

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    Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?

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    Small children are well known to be afraid of voids (closets, under the bed) in their sleeping area. Knowing this, why don't we design children's rooms to eliminate them?

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Ask The World - A non-regional community for asking questions about other countries and cultures

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Lemmy is part of the same Fediverse as Mastodon, right? So how do I interact with Mastodon instances from Lemmy?