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by neaden 4y ago
Probably the best move, I mean what can you say? An immediate apology isn't going to be credible and you can't really claim innocence at all.
422.
by neaden 4y ago
The fishing one is the outlier, since in that case th cheaters were caught red handed in dramatic fashion in front of a crowd. With the chess and poker it's much less clear if anything happened and what to do about it.
423.
by neaden 4y ago
While this one went pretty ridiculously big and so got attention, I wonder how many small versions of this exist, claiming a valuation of a million or two and slip under the radar.
424.
by neaden 4y ago
Optimally a lot of decks will have 4 fetches if they are dual colored, and 10+ if they are multicolored. You could have a single fetch and some shocks to save money but you'll lose some percentage of games from the damage.
425.
by neaden 4y ago
Well steroids and doping are different because they effect your body but sure, if Armstrong had cheated during trials with something like a small motor but not during the actual tour it would have tarnished his legacy but I don't think
426.
by neaden 4y ago
The claim in the original comment that I replied to was that Hans had admitted to cheating in "real, official, prize money online tournaments", which was when he was 12. As for cheating and stakes I think it all depends. His claim
427.
by neaden 4y ago
Part of it is that he cheated on Chess.com which does not publicize bannings for cheating/punishments, so there wasn't really a reason for the tournament to not invite him since at that point from an organizers perspective it was
428.
by neaden 4y ago
Right but the claim he made is at 16 he cheated only in no-stakes games, not for prize money.
429.
by neaden 4y ago
They are pretty accurate, though of course when you are dealing with the person at the very top it's going to be hard to say how accurate it is. I think broadly though most experts agree that Hans beating Magnus was an unlikely but pos
430.
by neaden 4y ago
To be fair to Hans, his claim is he cheated in a prize money tournament when he was 12. If he cheated in prize money games besides that it would be different, but I think most people are willing to forgive a 12 year old.
431.
by neaden 4y ago
Yeah, I think Magnus is making a mistake conflating two things. It is totally fine to think that Nieman should have been punished more for online cheating, but combining it with his accusation of cheating at the Sinquefield Cup come off as
432.
by neaden 4y ago
Usually yes but we are talking about Fischer here, whose anti-Semitism was a bit different then the standard.
433.
by neaden 4y ago
Well he denied being a Jew, though his mother was he said he never was raised Jewish in any way. So while he met the Jewish definition of being Jewish it's not a label he would ever use for himself.
434.
by neaden 4y ago
His paranoia started before this. Edit: I want to be clear here, the police can absolutely be abusive to paranoid people, and people struggling with mental illness might seem to be acting suspiciously or weirdly by the police who have no tr
435.
by neaden 4y ago
He wanted the millitary to take over and execute all the Jewish people in the country, whom he blamed for all his problems. Many people are treated poorly by the police and don't start advocating genocide.
436.
by neaden 4y ago
I think it's important to note that Bobby Fischer was paranoid and delusional. While he was definitely arrested and injured, his exact claims here should be viewed sceptically.
437.
by neaden 4y ago
I agree it's a matter of statistical analysis, as well as being an IM Dr. Ragan is a professor at University of Buffalo, has published numerous papers on his methodology, and a former member of the Anti-Cheating Committee of the World
438.
by neaden 4y ago
Something like 95% of cases end in a plea deal, where a judges involvement is pretty minimal.
439.
by neaden 4y ago
Ken Ragan is the world regarded expert on detecting cheating on Chess through statistics and he says there is no proof of Hans cheating: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/did-hans-niemann-cheat...
440.
by neaden 4y ago
Hans beat Magnus once at the Sinquefield Cup, and technically here though it was Magnus resigning. Meanwhile at the Crypto Cup which was the last time they played before this Hans got trounced by Magnus. Keep in mind based on their ratings
441.
by neaden 4y ago
"I think Hans is cheating and want FIDE to investigate him and will not play him until they do."
442.
by neaden 4y ago
Magnus has technically cheated in online by getting advice from his friends who were sitting with him which is against the rules. If you are going to have a strict cheating = lifetime ban policy then Magnus needs to go as well. If you think
443.
by neaden 4y ago
The issue is there isn't even a cheating accusation. Magnus conceded here and quit another tournament but hasn't actually said he thinks Hans is cheating.
444.
by neaden 4y ago
I completely forgot about Google Duplex. It looks like it is still around but very limited in terms of what phones you can use, what cities it can be used in, and what businesses in those cities will accept it. Doesn't appear any progr
445.
by neaden 4y ago
To be fair the criminal justice system in this country basically feels like blackmail since very rarely does it end in a trial, but instead the threats of massive charges/prison time unless you give in and come to a deal.
446.
by neaden 4y ago
They did eventually plead guilty and recant their accusations of racial profiling. The plea deal didn't involve any jail time.
447.
by neaden 4y ago
Even before then, Oberlin was the first college in the US to admit women on a permanent basis, and one of the first to admit black students. Back before the civil war it was an important sanctuary for people freeing enslavement in the south
448.
by neaden 4y ago
It looks like the Ohio supreme court just declined to hear the case yesterday, and before that they were appealing the ruling. IANAL but I would assume that it's only now that Gibson's will be able to really go after them for the
449.
by neaden 4y ago
I grew up in a college town, and it's a weird experience in some ways. The college provides so much, jobs obviously but also opportunities for classes, concerts, and other things that wouldn't normally be in a city that size. But
450.
by neaden 4y ago
To nitpick breakfast tea isn't a type of tea. There is English Breakfast Tea which is a specific blend of black tea and spices. Black tea usually have 50 mg of caffeine per cup, roughly half what coffee has. Oolong, Green, and White t

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