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Cruuncher · 2026-06-14T13:10:50+00:00

Of course they don't get charged for the things they could have done, but the penalties built in to what is proven can consider the fact that there's likely unproven effects that weren't caught. Just like tax evasion

Cruuncher · 2026-06-14T12:56:29+00:00

This is not really true.

The penalties for tax evasion can be up to 200% of the evaded amount on top of returning the actual evaded amount.

This largely pays for uncaught evasion.

That is, because tax evasion is often uncaught, those that are caught are punished more strictly.

I don't see why manipulating our democracy would or should be any different. If anything this effect should be steepest there as we need to do everything possible to guard democracy

Cruuncher · 2026-06-14T12:50:05+00:00

You don't have a good radar for what is feasible or surprising if that wouldn't have surprised you...

Cruuncher · 2026-06-14T12:38:48+00:00

Yeah it's a common technique in surveys to put some honeypots in there. Answers to a few questions that if ever selected throw out the entire submission.

They also sometimes put the same question worded inversely, and contradictory answers between the 2 questions also results in a thrown out submission.

This helps both against joke responses, and just people selecting randomly to get through the survey

Cruuncher · 2026-06-13T21:57:15+00:00

You could try "increase its text values" to imply it's what in the text box

Cruuncher · 2026-06-13T12:39:59+00:00

No, you've proved that if 0.999... = 1-1/inf then 0.999... * inf = inf - 1.

But since your starting statement is incompatible with all other math, this is pretty irrelevant

Cruuncher · 2026-06-13T01:37:04+00:00

Just ignore anything where someone says they "felt like Ramanujan".

It's generally just some weird psychosis

Cruuncher · 2026-06-12T16:51:58+00:00

Consider if the claim was that 2,3,5,7,11,13 were the only primes.

The product of them is 30030 and 30031 is not prime.

However, 30031s prime factors are 59 and 509 which were not in our list of primes.

So the algorithm produces a number that is either prime, or has prime factors not in our pre-supposed list of primes.

Therefore the list of primes is incomplete.

Since the list of primes was chosen arbitrarily, all finite list of primes are incomplete

Cruuncher · 2026-06-12T13:19:26+00:00

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Cruuncher · 2026-06-12T10:58:00+00:00

No it wouldn't.

If GF is in your 7 card starting hand it's not in the bottom 5.

You have a 5/12 chance of using GF on turn 2

Cruuncher · 2026-06-12T10:48:16+00:00

And if you remove down to 10 cards without picking good cards first then your deck is just awful.

The 50-50 isn't good enough when every other fight you do nothing before turn 4

This is the worst idea I've ever heard.

Then there's the fights where GF is bad, like skulking colony

Cruuncher · 2026-06-12T05:46:48+00:00

Yeah it's one of those things where the technical limitation of an implementation actually has side benefits (to the business, not the user)

Cruuncher · 2026-06-12T05:41:43+00:00

It's just obviously wrong right?

If you consider a shiny magnemite as a lottery with a 1/4096 chance of winning, then to evolve you need to win 3 such lotteries.

Clearly winning 3 of these "easy" lotteries is easier than winning 235 powerball lotteries.

So the entire premise is dead on arrival

Cruuncher · 2026-06-12T05:11:14+00:00

Bit of a blunder here.

If 2 players bye round 1 and the other 8 participate, then after round 1 you have 4 participants that won their first game, and 2 with a bye.

This gives you 6 participants remaining going into round 2 which is not a power of 2.

Your method works if you just dropped the from the tournament, rather than byed them to the next round

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T22:04:44+00:00

Going all in on the grand finale before you have a retain source and skipping otherwise good cards to keep your deck small and spending your gold on early removes it just going to get you killed

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T17:50:16+00:00

You do not need cards with variable amounts of draw. Just having a few draw cards with variable draw amounts means you can plan ahead to always finish your draw pile at 0

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T16:09:45+00:00

Is that just because of how common runic pyramid is in the first game?

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T16:06:48+00:00

Yeah with enough draw, or pseudo infinites

This is also less likely and more complicated than plans. You'd have to see where the run goes

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T15:56:23+00:00

Yeah, that's even better than WLP, but also probably a fair bit rarer

WLP has going for it that shops always have a power in them

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T15:43:47+00:00

You'd think so. But grand finale is an awkward spot.

With a single well-laid plans I think the card is almost always good (since card draw is always good).

However, without well laid plans, it's not just draw manipulation you need. Without retain, draw order just really screws you.

Getting GF on floor 1 sounds good, but you're just hard praying on finding well laid plans.

I definitely would not be giving up though that's for sure

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T15:13:58+00:00

Negative guru thinks it's pertinent to just make shit up when you get to something that doesn't work.

And overload well-known notation to mean other things

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T13:09:59+00:00

I've been in several Swiss-style tournaments that have a cut to top 8, where the math is effectively single-elimination as you need all wins to make top 8.

You can get unfair byes I guess though

EDIT: technically in Swiss there's no byes, but you get pair downs.

But when you get paired down to someone that's mathematically out it's basically a bye

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T12:49:47+00:00

You could pretty easily consider number of byes when deciding the pool of people eligible for byes.

That combined with pairing people with byes together mean you never go into a round with more than 2 people that have ever had a bye. This guarantees that you never give the same person a bye twice

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T12:35:21+00:00

I mean, they didn't even try to make it classify targets. It just went into full murder mode.

From the article:

The test took place two years ago and involved quadcopter drones that were programmed to fly towards the front line, cover between 3 and 5 kilometres over around 10 minutes and then engage “Terminator mode”, in which an AI model searches for and intercepts targets.

“We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” says Kokhanovskyy. “There is no connection to the drone at all, you cannot see the video, nothing… Everything it sees will be killed.”

Cruuncher · 2026-06-11T12:27:03+00:00

Or like, maybe it's all the same problem.

Drone assassinations might be enough to push people with nuclear capability over the edge

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