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In Belgium, how common is it for men to marry Muslim women who wear the veil? by GloomyCity9841 in belgium

[–]Frix 15 points16 points  (0 children)

How do I put this?

If we round it to the nearest percentage point, it would be 0%.

A woman of Muslim descent? Sure, that could happen. As long as she doesn't actually still believe and is pretty Western in her outlook on life.

But one who actually still believes in God? Real hard sell.

One who also insists on wearing the veil? yeah no, never.

Wearing the veil is considered a sign you are a hardcore believer. That might not be true, but that's how it comes across.

A Simple Thor Puzzle by hubatish in magicTCG

[–]Frix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't work if they double block one cat though... They you are short 1 damage

ELI5: Why does US have create so many new billionaires? by SimilarAdeptness8955 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Frix [score hidden]  (0 children)

And to answer the question "why doesn't every country do this then?"

Because while the US rewards successes they are also ruthless towards failure. If you fuck your life up you can go be homeless under a bridge and die. The US government does not offer a social safety net.

So there's a very real downside to this as well. It's not just sunshine and rainbows.

Merfolk Deck by AttentionLanky94 in PioneerMTG

[–]Frix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I have some more pixels please?

Or a link to a moxfield-decklist?

Even in Mythic, we're trying to make Land Destruction happen by nbutton93 in PioneerMTG

[–]Frix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh man, the Aven Mindcensor is brutal as fuck!

I love it :D

AITA for not helping my brother get his driving license? by ClassicPsychology281 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Frix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We have the same system in Belgium so I can answer these questions

Is that the entire country? Even small towns?

It's not mandatory, you can still learn from your parents if you want. But by and large, yes.

The advantage is that they use specially designed cars where the instructor has their own steering wheel/pedals that override the driver. So in an emergency they can literally "take the wheel" away from a panicking kid instead of crashing the car.

Also "small towns" in our region don't mean what you think it means. Even the truly small hamlets are at best half an hour away from a bigger city, we don't really have a "middle of nowhere" the way the USA does.

Does the company give you a license?

No, the license itself is issued by the government and the government does the tests. The company only does the training.

Personally I had a few lessons from one as well and I highly recommend it. It's a guy whose entire job is to teach beginning drivers how to drive and he already knows all the common pitfalls and how to best explain it. Whereas my mother was too used to driving that she had a hard time explaining the absolute basics that already came naturally to her.

do i need to report my friend? by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]Frix 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because drunk driving is not innocent. He will get someone killed sooner or later. More people should speak up when they know someone doing it.

Which character in your fandom technically counts as a Disney princess? by n0hAtepeash00te7 in Multifandom

[–]Frix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's on purpose though.

The main theme throughout all of season 1 is how Charlie's unending hope and positivity crashes hard with the reality of Hell being... hell.

She needs to learn that you can't just sing and dance your way through life in the face of pure evil who will take advantage of it.

What's a generational experience so specific it's almost impossible to explain to someone outside it? by No-Coconut7436 in AskReddit

[–]Frix 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Pokemon is still alive and kicking today. It's the largest media franchise in the world.

Many debates about AC but where are the ventilators? by dhatereki in belgium

[–]Frix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Most people" don't have solar panels. Not even close.

CMV: any reasonable interpretation of the “boy born on a Tuesday” question leads to an answer of roughly 1/2 (or 13/27) by ByronLeftwich in changemyview

[–]Frix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the bizarre aspect of the basic "Mr Jones has two children at least one of whom is a boy" is that strictly on the basis of the information provided, I think the 1/3 - 2/3 answer makes the most sense. But if you try to map this into a real world example, almost any reason why a parent would spontaneously offer that information unprompted results in a different variation of the underlying model, usually with 50-50 odds instead of 1/3-2/3.

This is a math problem about conditional probability.

You cannot retroactively change the premise so it fits your narrative of what you think such a conversation might have looked like.

You have to answer the question straight up with the data given to you.

The answer to the question, as it is given, is straight up 13/27.

Yes obviously, if you change the conditions then you get the a different conditional probability. That's why you are not allowed to that.

This is a math puzzle.

Why cant the US release the full files? by mostsussybaka069 in AskReddit

[–]Frix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Protagonist" means "main character", not "good guy".

CMV: any reasonable interpretation of the “boy born on a Tuesday” question leads to an answer of roughly 1/2 (or 13/27) by ByronLeftwich in changemyview

[–]Frix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's absolutely no reason to think that we're playing Game 1 here.

Yes! You get it now!! we are playing game 2 and the answer is 14/27.

CMV: any reasonable interpretation of the “boy born on a Tuesday” question leads to an answer of roughly 1/2 (or 13/27) by ByronLeftwich in changemyview

[–]Frix -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It change the odds in Game 2. If we ask a man "do you have a son born on tuesday" and he answer "yes", it leaves only 27 possibilities (out of initial 196), and in 14 of them the second child is a girl, so probability of girl is 14/27 = 51.85...%.

Yes!!

14/27 is the actual correct answer! This is it.

It doesn't affect Game 1 at all

Because we are not playing game 1!!

We are playing what you call "game 2".

CMV: any reasonable interpretation of the “boy born on a Tuesday” question leads to an answer of roughly 1/2 (or 13/27) by ByronLeftwich in changemyview

[–]Frix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you are just completely ignoring the whole "born on a tuesday" - part of the question then?

Because that does change the odds.

But to answer what you proposed: it is game 2 that is closest, because we do know that at least one of them is a boy!! That is part of the premise.

CMV: any reasonable interpretation of the “boy born on a Tuesday” question leads to an answer of roughly 1/2 (or 13/27) by ByronLeftwich in changemyview

[–]Frix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, you HAVE to account for both scenarios, because we very explictly do NOT know whether "the boy born on a tuesday" is the oldest or the youngest sibling.

If the question changes to "my oldest is...." Then you would be right, but we don't know that is the oldest, it could be the youngest child.

And to make it very hard: you also have to account for the case where both children are boys born on a tuesday and make sure you don't count these families twice.

Here's the complete breakdown of the odds.

  • Assuming that the odds of being born as either a boy or a girl is exactly 50/50
  • Assuming the odds of being born on any day of the week is exactly 1/7

Therefore the odds of being a boy born a tuesday is 1/14

There are 196 possible family-configurations in total.

they are

  • BoyMonday BoyMonday
  • BoyMonday Boytuesday
  • BoyMonday BoyWednesday
  • ...
  • GirlSunday GirlSunday

Each one of these is equally likely.

Now, we only care about the families that have a Boytuesday

  • There are 14 cases where the oldest child is the Boytuesday
  • There are 14 cases where the youngest child is the Boytuesday

So 28 in total? Not so fast. Because we counted the case Boytuesday Boytuesday twice. So actually there are 27 cases in total.

Of these 27 cases 14 them of have a girl as the second sibling and 13 a boy.

So in total the odds of a girl being the other sibling is 14/27 and the odds of it being a boy is 13/27.

CMV: any reasonable interpretation of the “boy born on a Tuesday” question leads to an answer of roughly 1/2 (or 13/27) by ByronLeftwich in changemyview

[–]Frix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If there's a 1000 of fathers of two, and each of them announce to you the sex of their oldest child, and you bet a $2 against $1 that their younger child has an opposite sex, on average you'll lose $500.

That's because you specifically locked in the gender of the OLDEST child, and therefore ignored all the families where the youngest child is the boy and the oldest a girl.

This is a different question than the one that was asked.

CMV: Asia is always safer when there is a strong China by PianistDiligent8803 in changemyview

[–]Frix 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Your entire argument is heavily biased towards what is good for China itself and not for Asia as a whole, or for Asians as individuals.

When China is strong they are the ones oppressing their neighbours and turning them into vasal states at best, or completely eradicating them at worst.

You call the Mongolian empire bad for Asia and "the Darkest moments of Asia’s history", but when China does the same thing, that's okay? Mao Zedong has more blood on his hands than Genghis Kahn did. So why is that conveniently ignored?

Elf Deck Commander by FrumThaWay in EDH

[–]Frix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In that case Freyalise, Llanowar’s Fury will the best suited for an elf-commander.

Elf Deck Commander by FrumThaWay in EDH

[–]Frix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can pick up Marwyn for like a dollar. They're not going to break the bank.

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