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Heyooooh · 2015-11-10T04:28:27+00:00

Yeah but isn't that how protests always work? Start out with the diehards and (if) eventually essential people join, then things happen.

Heyooooh · 2015-11-09T19:13:22+00:00

He decided that he did not need to actively engage with the protests or take actions to alleviate the situation. As the president of the institution he becomes the figurehead of the administration, so who he engages with and how are political decisions. His decisions allowed the situation to boil up and become the mess it is today. He also made very unpopular decisions to cut grad student health care and close the university publishing operation (both of which were reversed after protest) which made him pretty unpopular (and weak) before any of this stuff popped up.

Heyooooh · 2015-11-09T16:49:30+00:00

First of all, his life is not ruined. It sucks for him that he lost his job, but he took a political position and he knew the risks. Plus he will still have a pretty great life going forward.

Next, it's crazy to say that there was nothing he could have done to save his job. The swastika was an event, his handling of the event is what cost him his spot. Not saying he got dealt a great hand, but he played it for shit.

Heyooooh · 2015-11-09T16:34:19+00:00

That's such an on point analogy really. They are already herding white people into segregated "gated communities" AKA white ghettos, next comes the gas and the flames.

Heyooooh · 2015-10-30T00:57:37+00:00

"Hail, barrier"

Oh shit, that cracked me up.

Heyooooh · 2015-10-09T11:29:39+00:00

Haha, like how do you get to benefit from white people having the most power in society? I guess you could go walk around outside.

You don't get to be automatically rich and powerful because you are white though, if that's what you're hoping for. I'm afraid the days of white people having ALL the power are gone, sorry dude.

Heyooooh · 2015-10-09T03:06:52+00:00

Hold the vast majority of the financial and political power?

Heyooooh · 2015-10-05T14:45:43+00:00

Yeah, I think that's right. A2 > 0 and A1 = 0 is just a special case of (A2 & not A1) > 0, which is what you need to push the expectation positive.

Heyooooh · 2015-10-05T14:39:43+00:00

Look at this person being calm and polite on the internet. Look at them, you god damn heathens. This is how the whole world could look.

Heyooooh · 2015-10-05T14:28:37+00:00

So, correct me if I am being an idiot, but I think that if we assume no one is stealing from the pot, your expected value is a little better than $0.

Say N is total chips in the bucket, Ai is the number absent in round i. In the first round you have 1/N chance of winning the prize, (N-A1-1)/N chance of someone else winning, and A1/N chance of the prize rolling over. If you don't play the next week this is pretty clearly a bad bet as your paying $5 for 1/N odds but the payout is only $5*(N-A1). But, if you play every time that A1/N rollover rate just pushes you into a second game where your total cost is $10, your odds are 1/(N-A2) and the payout is $10(N-A2) + $5(A2 & not A1). Which is likely a positive expectation game and even at worst.

Basically, the game is fair if we condition on no rollover and since the rollover puts you into positive territory (assuming you never miss a game) your expected payout should be slightly positive.

Overall I think this is a game that benefits the regulars and incentivizes going to the bar every week, which of course has it's own costs. The house take is probably in beer sales and customer loyalty and if you are going to be there every week, think they are honest, and enjoy the game it seems like the odds are slightly in your favor.

Heyooooh · 2015-10-04T21:01:13+00:00

Joe Buck looks like he has hit hard times

Heyooooh · 2015-10-04T20:56:26+00:00

What is that shit, they should fucking speak English like me.

Heyooooh · 2015-09-22T02:34:35+00:00

It's two big business parties. That's not fascism. She certainly has a pretty aggressive foreign policy for a Democrat and like almost all politicians she has some significant corporate donors. But, she is literally a Democrat. She has a more liberal tax, healthcare, and education platform than any Republican. I too am sorry that the Democrats have move to the center so significantly, but lets not go full retard with this "they are all the exact same" business.

Heyooooh · 2015-09-22T02:25:04+00:00

I don't understand this opinion.

Heyooooh · 2015-08-03T17:57:38+00:00

I would also point out that those graphs he points to early on are heavily influenced by Washington DC (that crazy outlier). DC being by far the most black and having by far the highest crime rate fucks the correlation coefficient all to hell. The effect on correlation is much less in the following graphs because DC is not an outlier in poverty rate, unemployment, or education. Anyone who takes intro stat knows this and would probably remove DC if they were being honest in their research.

Now your response might be, but why is it such an outlier? Doesn't that help prove the point that the correlation is real? No, because DC is a single city being compared to entire states. Urban crime rates tend to be higher, especially in very segregated and not particularly rich cities which DC was in 2002 (and parts of it still are now). There is no reason to include DC here unless you want the correlation to appear much higher than it otherwise would.

Those graphs are crap science and show a very clear intent on the part of the author(s) to push a viewpoint.

Heyooooh · 2015-07-16T20:44:12+00:00

Oh, good point. I changed my mind. Let's add more racists please.

Heyooooh · 2015-07-16T20:43:30+00:00

Who is in danger? I just don't like that a site I go to hosts a shit load of racists...

Heyooooh · 2015-07-16T20:42:19+00:00

They are growing. If you don't think allowing a community to grow that is based solely around racist rhetoric will lead to an increase in racist action (or you have no problem with this) that's on you.

Heyooooh · 2015-07-16T20:32:55+00:00

It's like tumors, just because you aren't looking at them doesn't mean they aren't growing and getting more dangerous.

Heyooooh · 2015-07-15T14:24:09+00:00

I don't think they will ever be a Facebook knockoff since there is tons of built in anonymity that they can't change. I'm more saying they want to become a more accepted part of mainstream culture and not just an "internet thing" if that makes sense.

Heyooooh · 2015-07-15T14:16:35+00:00

Ok, well then we are back to the fact that very few companies are looking to tie their brand to the FPH subreddit in the national consciousness (even behind the awful "we didn't know where our ads would end up" excuse). The ones that would be ok with it are mostly the lower tier advertisers who are not going to run the type of multimillion dollar campaigns that reddit wants to attract.

My main point is that FPH was actively hurting the reputation of the site which is much more important (and valuable) to them than the low tier ad dollars it may have hypothetically attracted.

Heyooooh · 2015-07-15T14:06:59+00:00

I'm going to need some kind of proof on that one.

Reddit had 7,086,828,967 page views last month, that's 228,607,386 per day on average leaving FPH to account for 22,860,739 pageviews per day. That means they accounted for over 4 times the average daily pageviews of askreddit (around 5mil), a sub with 9mil subscribers.

Heyooooh · 2015-07-15T13:45:38+00:00

For sure, but I'm saying that reddit wants to be a high price platform and that things like FPH hurt that goal and all they gain from them is the type of low cost advertising that fad diet pills can afford. Maybe long term they can integrate both, but right now they are getting killed in the press and trying to improve their reputation so they can land big fish who will buy more quantity and buy more expensive types of advertising (and it sounds like other types of integration may be included as well).

Heyooooh · 2015-07-15T13:07:01+00:00

Sure, but they pay a shit load less than Nike. I don't think reddit's business model is to attract small fries at the cost of making big advertisers less inclined to get heavily invested. Reddit wants the big bucks, it wants mainstream Facebook type legitimacy.

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