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  1. Everyone tosses three coins, and posts it in the chat
    • If a player tosses three of the same, they have to toss again.
  2. Everyone chooses the mode coin from their neighbour, and adds it to their stack
  3. Each player, with 3+N coins, picks the mode coin in their own collection.
    • Ideally: the player's own bias, is outweighed by the other player's biases.
  4. The final coin is the mode of all players coins.
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from numpy import median
from pprint import pprint

players = {"p1" : [1,0,1],  ## playing fair
           "p2" : [0,0,1],  ## cheating
           "p3" : [1,1,0],  ## cheating
           "p4" : [1,1,0],  ## cheating
           "p5" : [0,0,1]}   ## playing fair
print("Initial rolls:")
pprint(players)

get_mode_coin = lambda x: int(median(x))
get_all_mode_coins = lambda x: [get_mode_coin(y) for y in x]

for play in players: ## Players add the mode coin from their neigbours
    players[play] = players[play] + get_all_mode_coins(players.values())
print("First picks:")
pprint(players)

for play in players: ## Players collapse their collections to mode
    players[play] = [get_mode_coin(players[play])]
print("Last modes:", players)

print("Final choice:", get_mode_coin([x for x in players.values()]))

Which as you can see, is no better than simply picking the median coin from the initial rolls. I thank you for wasting your time.

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Second attempt that factors in cheating.

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from numpy import median
from random import choice
from pprint import pprint

# Functions
get_mode_coin = lambda x: int(median(x))
def pick(player, wants):
    for neighbor in players:
        if player != neighbor:
            neighbor_purse = players[neighbor]["purse"]
            if wants:
                if wants in neighbor_purse: # Cheat
                    players[play]["purse"] = players[play]["purse"] + [wants]
                    continue
            players[play]["purse"] = players[play]["purse"] + [choice(neighbor_purse)]


# Main
players = {"p1" : {"purse": [1,0,1], "wants": False}, ## playing fair
           "p2" : {"purse": [0,0,1], "wants": 0}, ## cheating
           "p3" : {"purse": [1,1,0], "wants": 1}, ## cheating
           "p4" : {"purse": [1,1,0], "wants": 0}, ## cheating
           "p5" : {"purse": [0,0,1], "wants": False}}   ## playing fair

for play in players: ## Players pick a desired coin from each of their neighbours
    pick(play, players[play]["wants"])
print("First picks:")
pprint(players)

for play in players: ## Players collapse their collections to mode
    players[play] = [get_mode_coin(players[play]["purse"])]
print("Last modes:", players)

print("Final choice:", get_mode_coin([x for x in players.values()]))

So, my method doesn't work

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If the free market had any real competitors, the problem would genuinely solve itself in favor of the consumer. We see this with any new tech where a bunch of new firms try to win customers by any means necessary in those first few years.

The problem as always is: where are the competitors after X years, and are these "competitors" actually competing anymore?

The solution as always is: regulation. But no one wants to hear that

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I don't know about much diversity is celebrated in Australia. I have cousins who grew up in NSW and eventually migrated to the UK, which they said had a marketed improvement in how they were treated. (N=2)

tetris11 ,
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https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

The life expectancy in the US is also dragged down by other factors. The US is a huge outlier in several other aspects:

  • Higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, and infant deaths, compared to other countries.
  • Additionally, deeper poverty, economic inequality.

It could just be that the US has way more vices per capita than other countries.

tetris11 ,
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I'm not sure if you're replying to right comment

tetris11 ,
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What other tools are there for ensuring a fair market? Government intervention seems like the only avenue

tetris11 ,
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Thanks for your insight!

tetris11 OP ,
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Oh I think you're right actually -- it looks like from the PDF that they will be issued notices

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-04/0010/230010.pdf

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b520f8bd-00da-4953-8c8a-64d79f492fcc.png

Still, this is the UK, so I claim "slippery slope".

tetris11 OP ,
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The French still have a solution to this. If Brits were more on board with damaging property we'd get more done.

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forgot, fixed, cheers

tetris11 OP ,
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you don't see that as an avenue for more and more orgs to do this by default, and given the lack of public spaces in our cities, essentially making it impossible to beg anywhere?

tetris11 OP ,
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At least where I live, you'll be hard pressed to find a spot in the city where a homeless person can sleep unnacosted, either by spikes being put down on flat surfaces, parks being closed at night, and benches that aren't on a main road.

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I don't think sitting and suffering (the english way) is to be applauded either, and since we have tentative control of our democracy, I'm not sure what other meaningful options we have

tetris11 ,
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I've seen puppies literally thrown into a bin. Y'all got issues with your pet/animal divides

tetris11 ,
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My ex's family were pissed when I didn't take her to see Buckingham Palace. There is NOTHING there to see. They make it as boring a possible on purpose. It's on a fucking roundabout for cry sake, you'd see more driving past.

tetris11 ,
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Are you confessing to something

tetris11 ,
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Nachts sind alle Katzen grau

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachts_sind_alle_Katzen_grau

Apparently it was originally adapted from Don Quixote

tetris11 ,
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For me it works 80% of the time. It's only if your hands are slightly moist when you're in trouble.

tetris11 ,
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I'd buy vast swathes of land in the countryside, and just make it a homeless refuge. They can erect a tent town if they want, host festivals, do farm work for money. Whatever, they're protected from the police.

tetris11 ,
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I watched my sister and her fiance call each other stupid and mentally deficient, purely as jokes, and it made me feel bad for them... even though they have a great relationship and say shit like that to each other as a joke.

I think people just have different sensitivies

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Catch all the sheep I lost getting head from my old bleak gay shuns.

tetris11 , (edited )
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sure, but wouldn't making a club out of larger pieces of wood make more sense?

tetris11 ,
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I was once in an open relationship. It was worst experience of my life. She'd mention her old boyfriend like he was still current, we had weird codewords if one of us was interested in someone else, and any talk of future plans was just this large void. Never again.

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  1. I voted remain, but I made a big fuss that the leave camp had a valid point about the workers rights in this country, with the expectation that "remain" would be the outcome still. Yes, I'm a shyster.
  2. Yes
  3. He's a racist ego-maniac, but he is funny at times and I like his show about tractors. People are a spectrum.
  4. I did when I was a teen. Now I find them whiney, though I do get nostalgic for that 90s sound sometimes. Ocean Colour Scene, Verve, Manics, etc.
  5. I'm sorry there's a h-wat now?
tetris11 ,
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What's a topic you could talk for hours about, and are you capable of summarizing it for a lay person?

(it shows that they're interesting, so when the looks fade with time you still have something to talk about, and it shows they're capable of not just parroting what they hear but internalizing it, and more importantly: coming down to meet you half way, the epitome of compromise through mutual dialogue)

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I am, it just feels like to me that, on some level, they are truly saying what they think in the same way that jokes have a small nugget of truth to them. Again, perhaps I'm being too sensitive.

tetris11 ,
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Oh they might definitely do these things, but mainly they will drive the local rent and house prices down, so it's still a win-maybewin

tetris11 ,
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"We've noticed that your eyes track boobs a lot, so here are some ads for better bras to reduce back ache."

tetris11 ,
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when houses become free, land/freeholds will be the new hustle. Cappies gotta cap.

tetris11 ,
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Don't be silly. Elon is going to anonymize the data extraction first, categorise you into one of five badly defined groups, and then beam that shitty group product back into your brain.

tetris11 ,
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I thought I was the only one. Fuck you Easyjet!

tetris11 ,
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Make money for your family, after you're gone! If you get 1 million visitors, you get 1000 dollars a month! Just need to train a bird to swoop by every few minutes, and you're living the life!

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Futurama, eh?

tetris11 ,
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he does raise very valid points about reproducible builds, which should be a priority if your product is security

Edit: oh @Wolflink below points out that such builds are available for Android, but iOS has issues stemming from Apple and not Signal. This then begs the question, why is Telegram reproducible on iOS?

tetris11 ,
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... and written there in my last income slip was "here's an extra 2000, to my favourite employee, ya filthy cunt."

tetris11 ,
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there are entire villages in northern cyprus where they speak Greek to one another, only switching to Turkish when a foreigner walks in the room.

There are monasteries and mosques dotting the countryside in equal measure

tetris11 ,
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He was a Japanese mech pilot who invented the kamikaze corp in WW1 as part of Operation Jinjuriki to overthrow the Emporer's wife who was said to be quite large. I have also not googled anything.

tetris11 OP ,
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Imagine it is. A Texas Ranger sidles up to you menacingly. What do you do?

tetris11 OP ,
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He's taken cover behind a cello and is palm fingering A minor. He's looking in your direction

tetris11 OP ,
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What are the tunes they're usually strumming?

tetris11 ,
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priest clears throat "in the immortal words of the deceased: f*ck da police coming straight from the underground..."

tetris11 ,
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it took me 6 years working abroad to realise that I could speak more freely with a random stranger from my homeland, than I ever could with my (now ex-)girlfriend.

tetris11 ,
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to the folks reading this on the toilet, give it time

How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating?

My parents raised me to always say "yes sir" and "no ma'am", and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I'm not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like "no thank you, ma'am" based on their appearing AFAB, but on a future visit...

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I quite like the idea of something in the spirit of "yes my good fellow", with fellow obviously being a bit too masculine despite its chuminess.

What about using some generic gender neutral names like Robin or Quinn (even if their name isn't Robin or Quinn):

"Yes my good Robin" or "Yes my good Quinn"

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No, you all them "shorty" and make wild claims about it being their birthday

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