alwaysmetara

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Why It Doesn't Pay to Be a People Pleaser(greatergood.berkeley.edu)
209 points by alwaysmetara 10y ago|154 comments
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by alwaysmetara 11y ago
I meant strictly more, as in at least three. If you know that there are more than two blue eyed people and you can only see two, you know that you have blue eyes. If you can see 99 blue eyes, you know that all the other people see either 9
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by alwaysmetara 11y ago
They wouldn't be counting to 100 days, because there's no point where everyone would start counting together (no one is allowed to reveal anything about eye color). So you know there's no reason for all the blue eyed people t
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by alwaysmetara 11y ago
Everyone commits suicide at noon in view of everyone else. So the lowest possible number of blue eyed people go up one per day. Here's a longer explanation: Since people who know their eye color suicides at noon in plain sight of every
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by alwaysmetara 11y ago
The important point is that the outsider's comment "synchronizes" the islander's information. On Day 2, say you are a blue eyed person. You can see two other blue eyed people. Since these two people don't commit su
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by alwaysmetara 11y ago
One player, the 'dictator', decides how to split a cash prize between themselves and the other player, the recipient. The recipient has no input into how the prize is split.
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by alwaysmetara 11y ago
I don't think IRV is worse than first-past-the-post (FPTP) at all. IRV eliminates vote splitting, reduces strategic voting, and results in fewer wasted votes. Also, the fact that IRV ignores all rankings except the first until the firs
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Can We Reduce Bias in Criminal Justice?(greatergood.berkeley.edu)
30 points by alwaysmetara 11y ago|35 comments
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by alwaysmetara 11y ago
>I will personally send you a thief I think you'll like every day, entirely determined by your preferences. Each thief will come as a surprise, probably not at the same time every day. http://www.launchnik.com/thiefi
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Subbable and Patreon Are Joining Forces(patreon.com)
2 points by alwaysmetara 12y ago|0 comments
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Cargo Cult Science (1974)(neurotheory.columbia.edu)
3 points by alwaysmetara 12y ago|0 comments
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Why We Love Music(greatergood.berkeley.edu)
5 points by alwaysmetara 12y ago|0 comments
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A New Dawn for Biotech(forbes.com)
1 points by alwaysmetara 12y ago|0 comments