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  • Soup is what happens when someone looks at delicious food and thinks “if I water this down, I bet I can make it last twice as long for my starving children.”

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    Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the electoral college in latest forecast
  • If I say a roll of a 6-sided die has a >50% chance of landing on a number above 2, and after a single roll it lands on 2, was I wrong?

    If anything, the problem is in the unfalsifiability of the claim.

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  • Maybe in a very rural town with one pizza place. Even here in small-town Tennessee I’d be pretty disappointed if that showed up. It’s not want-a-refund bad, but if that’s consistent and not just a one-off from them having some employees walk out or something, I’m switching pizza places going forward.

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    It's day one of the three-day Bell Riots. Everyone pay attention to internet channel 90 on your giant computers with tiny screens.
  • The blinkenlights are there to report the contents of the registers in binary code. This helps a lot when you are debugging by single-stepping the entire computer one instruction at a time.

    And now we have redstone torches for this.

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  • “Another eye for each additional dimension”, not “an eye for each dimension”.

    Eyes = dimensions - 1

    (For positive numbers of eyes)

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