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I think I remember reading about this and IIRC one of the players was given more starting money than the rest, but wasn't told about it. Then when they were asked why they think they won, they would say it was because of their strategy or their skill, and I think most even doubled down when they were told about the extra money. Something along those lines. My memory is likely inaccurate as well.

There's this song I like called "Austin, TX Blues" by Netherfriends and judging by the lyrics I'm guessing this is a common sentiment.

  I mean is anybody from here?
  Have you ever met anybody from here?
  Have you ever seen so many condos in your whole damn life
  That were built here in one year?

  Everyone I know that was born here is dope as fuck
  And everybody else sucks

I'm pretty sure the song is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but still.

No offense, but regardless of how right you might be, you come off as a bit of a condescending asshole. Like "Oh, you don't know that there's a more efficient way to do things? There can't possibly be any explanation other than you're literal human garbage and presumably have brain damage!". Come on, get off your high horse.

Wear noise-cancelling headphones for maximum immersion and don't take your eyes off the page to avoid losing your place. As a bonus, take your walks in high-traffic areas so that everyone can see how smart and productive you are!

Because China doesn't like it when people point out that they have concentration camps.

Because while the plebes have access to data, a lot of that data is biased, misleading, or it isn't and they've been convinced that it is.

Yes, the world is black and white. Definitely no grey areas in the legal system. Certainly no guilty people get off on technicalities.

So I guess you think OJ Simpson is a swell guy then?

I really don't understand how you could come to that conclusion. Whether something matters or not is entirely subjective or depends on context. Like, what does that even mean? My happiness matters very much to me, but doesn't matter at all to someone who will never meet me, or to the orbit of the earth around the sun... Yet the mass of the earth objectively matters very much to its orbit around the sun, and to many other things that would be affected by earth having a different mass. Maybe you mean, does it matter to me personally? Even then, I can't possibly see any reason why it would have to be all or nothing. Some distant galaxy on the other side of the known universe doesn't matter at all to me and likely never will. The current temperature outside matters to me a fair bit though, because it'll influence how likely I am to want to avoid the cold, or how long I stay outside.

Like I'm just trying to figure out if you're actually trying to say something meaningful or just saying something vague and abstract to try and sound "deep".

>What then?

Then you're a sociopath.

Selection may be a part of it, but you may be wrong in saying no information was stored.

I remember hearing about this one really interesting experiment where they would expose mice to a specific scent (I think it was citrus), and then give them a shock. Obviously after a while, when the mice smelled that scent they would get nervous and try to hide (or something along those lines, this is from memory so forgive any erroneous details). They then bred those mice and separated the offspring from the parents so that there was no way they could learn about the smell from them.

When they exposed the offspring to the smell, they reacted in the same way their parents did. Without ever having been exposed to it before, or knowing about the shocks. Pretty interesting stuff.

Or the incredibly powerful police unions that lobby politicians.

Poor Zuck, getting bullied like this :( I hope he pulls through

Really? You can't imagine any? Regardless of how unlikely it might be, there's a very real risk that shit's gonna go down in the next week and who knows what might happen. Even if nothing does happen, there's been an increasing amount of unrest in the past few years, it doesn't hurt to be prepared for the worst. You probably won't ever need to use the spare tire in your trunk, but it's reassuring to know that it's there if ever you need it.

I think that was the point. They're trying to say that if, hypothetically, you knew the probability was 1/2, and you flipped it a million times and only got heads, the probability doesn't change. The law of large numbers doesn't say this is impossible, just that it's incredibly, incredibly unlikely.

I think I see where you're coming from, in that you're allowed to have knowledge of other people, and most of the time it's perfectly innocuous. But I don't think that's a very fair comparison. There's a pretty big difference between just happening upon some information (that you would likely immediately forget because it's not important), and actively seeking out and extracting information, often combining it with more information from different sources, saving it to a "profile" associated with you, and often sharing it with third parties, all without your knowledge or consent.

You seem to be implying that there's no difference between having a single piece of harmless information about someone, and having lots of personal and/or intimate knowledge of them, especially if they aren't the ones having given it to you, and even more so if you're strangers.

I've read that gait recognition is even easier to implement and more accurate than facial recognition. People will find more and more innovative ways to invade our privacy.

It was not "debunked" in any way. We know 100% they colluded with Russian agents. They just couldn't prove criminal intent. As far as Trump's obstruction of justice, correct me if I'm misremembering, but I'm pretty sure the Mueller report basically said "He did it, but we couldn't come up with solid enough evidence that we would be confident we could indict a sitting president" and the last line saying something like "this absolutely does not absolve the president of wrongdoing". Basically if Trump was anyone other than the president, they would have charged him.

Without 100% rock-solid evidence, the legal complexity of trying to indict him (and him potentially pardoning himself) would have likely caused a constitutional crisis, and who knows what might have happened then. It wasn't worth the risk.

You forgot to mention the time-gating, which is maybe the main thing that has me on the fence about the upcoming expansion. Most of the progression mechanics force you to wait a certain amount of time before you can keep going. This is incredibly frustrating to me, because I tend to play in bursts. I don't feel like logging on for 15 minutes to do a daily every day, and then when I do feel like getting a long session in, my progress is arbitrarily and artificially capped. Haven't looked into whether this will be better in the next xpac, but it's been a frustrating experience for the last 2-3.

Oh don't worry, there are still plenty. It's better now though, most bears have asses.

What are you on dude? In what universe does synchronization not involve time? Synchronization is defined as "Occur at the same time or rate".

Even if you're so pedantic that you're going to say something like "it could mean rate and not time". Rate also means "the number occurrences in a specific time interval". So how exactly are you contorting your logic to come to this conclusion?

Why not? By asking things like that, he gives the experts the chance to address those ideas and present a more informed and/or grounded perspective of them. Honestly I think a lot of the time this is exactly why he asks things like that.

It'll probably take a couple of weeks for your fingers to callus, after that it's fine. Just keep it up! The trick to improving is just consistent deliberate practice. Practice every day, even if it's just 15 minutes. Take note of what you need to improve on, and practice those things. And don't be afraid to play things at very slow tempos at first, you want your muscle memory to remember how to play things properly. Start slow and build speed over time. A metronome can help a lot with this, and helps train your internal metronome at the same time, so I recommend that too.

My #1 piece of advice though would be to not give up. I find the most frustrating and unrewarding part of learning an instrument is at the very start. You have to build your foundations from essentially nothing, you have 0 muscle memory built up, and progress can seem non-existent sometimes. But once you get through that initial phase, the sky's the limit! In my experience, it only takes a year or two to get good enough that people will enjoy your playing (provided you practice at a relatively consistent rate over that time).

Have fun!

The universe is chaos. Order is artificial.

I think you might be underestimating the potential of biological engineering.

As a member of the current generation, I can confirm that no one drools over Haskell except hardcore nerds. We drool at Go and Rust and new JS frameworks. And Python I guess, but everyone loves Python.