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  • If your goal is to roll a 7, then no, weighting one die doesn't help, because it doesn't matter which side comes up in the weighted die.

    (Another way to look at it is that you can place 1 die on whatever side you like, then roll the 2nd die: you still have a 1/6 chance of rolling a combined 7).

    However that is only the case for a 7, because you can roll a 7 with any combination of the first die (and a particular value in the 2nd). If your goal is to roll a 12, then weighting one die towards 6 will affect the odds, because you need a 6 on that first die to roll a 12; any other outcome makes it impossible.

  • No, the Crypto part is important, because it makes it trivialize easy to issue any number of tokens (trillions? quadrillions? 2^64?) and then trade with them. Gift cards still have the limitation that you need a network to accept them, and they are commonly understood in accounting practices so retailers need to account for them.

    How can we be sure that some random stablecoin is really backed by currency 1:1 like they claim? The largest stablecoin in use today is Tether, which claims to have over $100B in circulation, all "backed 1:1". But every audit they have released has been deficient in some way. You would think with that much money in a bank somewhere people could figure out where it all is.

  • I applaud the author for realizing that the real threat is coming from inside the (White) House....

    The politicization of law enforcement has acquired a new dimension during the ongoing immigration crackdowns, when the Administration has sometimes seemed to allow its agents to disguise their identities or affiliations so that it is often unclear to detainees whose custody they are in, or under what authority. (If the vigilantes have been encouraged to act as cops, the actual cops have also been encouraged to act a bit more like vigilantes.)

  • Didn't matter. Look at the three elections that Trump ran, and his performance against the candidate with a penis vs. the ones without one.

    The American electorate will vote for a Black penis-haver (particularly if he is a baller) over any vagina-haver right now. They still won't say "I'm a sexist pig" in the exit polls, though, so we get reasons like "She didn't explain her policies enough" or "She wasnt authentic enough" instead.

  • No, Bonds are regulated.

    This is more like Disney Dollars. Remember those? Disney used to print their own money, that people could "buy" 1:1 to the Dollar, that was only redeemable at their properties. The idea was that kids going to Disney could get Disney Dollars as gifts from their relatives ahead of a trip to Disney, and then they could spend it just like cash. You could never redeem it back to USD, though, just spend it on stuff. So if you had any of the scrip left over, you had to hold it until the next time.

    Disney discontinued printing the scrip years ago, because gift cards do the same thing, only better. They still accept Disney Dollars, but ironically their discontinuation made them scarce and they sell for more than face value as collectibles.

    This bill allows any entity to create their own crypto-enabled version of Disney Dollars, collecting real money in exchange. What happens if the entity goes out of business, or "gets hacked"? I don't think this bill addresses any of that.

  • On the bright side, though, if Russia is actively covering for Iran and Trump is aligning against that, then Putin might finally decide Trump has outlived his usefulness as an asset and send Trump some of his special tea....

  • Smith’s mother told local news that the baby weighs 1 pound and 13 ounces and will require care in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.

    Yikes.

    Then again, if she was 9 weeks in when she was declared brain-dead, and that was February, it's still only June. The baby was not much further than 25 weeks along. I know these neonatal doctors and nurses are miracle workers, but that may be asking too much.

  • This is gonna have to get a more thorough read from me when I am off work, saved for later. However, these people think the election was stolen through the device's UPS? I find that hard to believe.

    Let’s think this through logically. We’re supposed to believe that in all the battleground states, Democratic voters were so disillusioned by Vice President Harris’s platform that they voted blue down ballot—but flipped to Trump at the top of the ticket?

    I mean, if the average lemming is any indication, Harris was a genocide-enabling cop who they would never vote for. (And a bunch of others used "I didn't like her policies" as a polite way of saying "I won't ever vote for a woman".) So yeah, that tracks.

    Where these people see a conspiracy, I just see people who didn't think things through.