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Logical Risks
The logic that a 15% chance at 1 million dollars is worth $150,000 is based on the assumption that you get an infinite, or at least statistically significant number of tries at the game.
If it's a one time thing, a sure thing might be the way to go.
I mean, which would you rather have? $500 or an 10^ -19 chance at 1 * 10 ^ 22? If it's a one time only offer.
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at 1:07 PM on January 27, 2006
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I wonder how much the fines will be?
A gay person, an imam, a journalist and a Gypsy will take part in the first stages of the project.
What they don't tell you is that that's all one person.
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at 2:18 PM on August 18, 2005
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Angelina Jolie: Cambodian
It is almost as if she is a real hu-man being, driven by a complicated web of emotions, ideals and drives, but whose every decision and action are for some reason broadcast to millions of people.
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at 8:11 PM on August 12, 2005
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T-22 hours, and counting
excuse me, but a brick strapped to a bomb isn't very advanced science.
Just because you don't understand it, doesn't make it easy. The Shuttle boosters are one of the most complicated machines we (humans) have made.
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at 9:43 PM on July 12, 2005
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James Burns' detached retina
This is great!
Doctors have told me that due to my incredibly poor vision, I'm at risk for a detached retina, and just the threat of it is absolutely terrifying. "I don't want to worry you son, but medical science says that your eyes could basically explode at any time, with no warning, don't forget to get a lollipop from the receptionist on your way out".
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at 12:09 PM on June 30, 2005
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The art of science
Idiots.
Idiots say science can't be beautiful. I'm sorry, I know it was a rethorical question, but this is a bugbear of mine. It is the worst possible argument against science and I hear it all the damn time, explicitly forwarded by creationists and other ne'er do wells, and implicit in the popular media. "Well maaaaaybe science is techincally right, but my made up ideas are more beautiful." Bosh! Bosh I say!
Consider, which is the more... [more]
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at 10:03 AM on June 28, 2005
"Well, yeah, ok, but science can't add beauty to the world, only explain things"
Look up at the night sky. What's going on? inconceivably long ago, unbelievably far away, in the heart of a star, two atoms fused together and emitted a photon.
This photon bounced around the star, being absorbed and reemitted for many many years. Eventually it found it's way to the surface of the star and took off through space.... [more]
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at 10:10 AM on June 28, 2005
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Don't Laugh at the D.O.E.
Why are you all mocking this? Kids need to learn that in the real adult world there are no mean people.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn
at 11:29 AM on June 27, 2005
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Queeny gets six-gigabyte silver iPod
Damn, her six gig iPod holds 10,000 songs? My 20 gig only holds about 4400 songs. WTF?
Clearly the Queen encodes at 64kbps. (or someone at AFP doesn't know the difference between 6 and 60)
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at 2:04 PM on June 17, 2005
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The Consciometer
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "Life Begins at 40", so I suggest we go with that.
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at 2:09 PM on June 14, 2005
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Independent World Television
[e.g., AIDS is an acronym; ADD is an abbreviation.]
Ok, , if no one else wants to bite, I will.
An acronym is the concatenation of all the first letters of the important words in a phrase, for example, AIDS, ADD, CNN, AFAIK, LOL.
And abbreviation is a shortening of a word, as in "re" for regarding, or "abbrev" for abbreviation
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at 11:23 AM on June 13, 2005
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Phil Gordon's Podcasts from WSOP 2005
I was listening to this on the weekend. In the first one I listened to he was recording during the breaks between hands, there was a really funny segment that went something like:
"I just need to double up once, and I'll be in a good position, but I'm not doing too well"
[break]
"Well, I just did great, I [numbers numbers hands numbers numbers players hands numbers] and the euphoria is just... [more]
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at 8:10 AM on June 13, 2005
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Hey you kids, get off my lawn!
Specklet: alopecia has absolutely nothing to do with aging.
The link I posted seems to directly contradict you.
doctor_negative: Well, how does it feel to have used up almost half of your expected life span?
doctor_positive would say I have more than half left!
dilettanti, happy birthday!
agregoli: Wow, he didn't even spell... [more]
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at 12:47 PM on May 27, 2005
MeFi post:
your mind
To paraphrase the article: "Look at me! I make wild predictions to get my name in the news!!!"
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at 8:10 AM on May 25, 2005
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Encyclopedia of Chicago
"You appear to be using Opera, which is not supported by the Encyclopedia of Chicago.
Please, visit the User’s Guide for a list of supported browsers."
Well crap.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn
at 11:12 AM on May 12, 2005
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Metafilter is a dense shrubbery.
If they do it that way they must have more process cycles than braincells.
Approx 20,000,000,000 braincells in the avg human brain.
A 2GHz processor generates that many cycles in about 20 seconds(*)... so yeah, they do.
(*)YMMV
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at 12:55 PM on April 28, 2005
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Still a dick, only now there's two of them
Duh! Superman does not-not have powers on Krypton because everything is harder on Krypton, he get's his powers from EARTH'S YELLOW SUN!
Also, Pepsi Blue comment in 5... 4... 3..
You have uncovered my elaborate scheme to sell more Superman comics from the 60's.
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at 8:48 AM on April 26, 2005
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Documents suggest Canadian involvement in Arar interrogation
As a Canadian, this (and other recent actions by the RCMP and Citizenship and Immigration) literally enrages me.
If this can happen, what is my citizenship worth? If I'm kidnapped by some other government and deported to a third country for torture, what is my government going to do about it? Sternly worded memo? Be slightly brisk with the ambassador in line at the UN cafeteria? Nothing?
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at 2:18 PM on April 22, 2005
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[to do: think up weak "choppers" pun]
I really have a hard time seeing the local Harley store as a bulwark in the fight against industrial capitalism.
The last time I was in a Harley Davidson store, they had Harley Davidson branded scented candles.
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at 10:57 AM on April 22, 2005
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Operation Vibration
These people are trying to solve a problem. And you know how when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail? Well, when all you have is a...
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at 11:51 AM on April 21, 2005
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People of the United States, why is everyone yelling at you???
You know, I could have taken this as the starting point for a linkalicious post about Unitarianism, doing lots of research and reading, but frankly, that sounded like a lot of work. Hey, it's a laugh right? If it's ok with you, I'll take a mulligan on this one.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn
at 3:07 PM on April 14, 2005
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...hey...ladies...check...out...my...crotch...
My name is Danjuma Sule, one of the sons of major Gen Gumel Danjuma Sule, The late Nigeria's former minister of mines and power in the regime of the late former Nigeria's military Head of state, Gen Sanni Abacha.He married my mother on the agreement that my mother,Amina Fausat Sule, will maintain her family's name together with her children. Before he died in the German hospital on the 15th of November 1988 where he went to operate on the cancer of the knee, he fixed the Sum of $30,000.000.00 in... [more]
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at 12:30 PM on April 5, 2005
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There's a world going on, underground.
in the early days, mules went below and didn't resurface until they died.
The workers did a brisk clandestine side business in pre-salt-preserved donkey meat after hours too*
*Not true.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn
at 10:41 AM on April 4, 2005
Sorry NortonDC, I searched for "salt" but that returned too many threads, so I tried "detroit salt" and that returned nothing and thus I thought I was safe.
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at 11:21 AM on April 5, 2005
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kettlebell hype
Marketing technique:
1. purchase 2 or 3 MF accounts
2. Create slightly wacky product page
3. Use one account to post a "hey, look at this wackiness" link
4. Use other accounts to post "no, seriously, I've used this and it worked" responses
I'm not sayin' this is what's going on... I'm just sayin' is all.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn
at 9:46 AM on March 31, 2005
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Who's cloning who?
Is Berek the only one who has ever wanted to have sex with his clone?
Clone, clone of my own
With it's Y chromosome changed to X
And when we're alone
with my own little clone
we will both think of nothing but sex
-I. Asimov.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn
at 12:53 PM on March 29, 2005
You're just counting syllables!
