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xkcd #3015: D&D Combinatorics
  • Everyone out here using a dice calculator, but can someone answer

    1. Given a value x in (0,1) is there a set of dice and AC such that sum(roll{n_iDv_i}) > AC has probability x?
    2. Is there a sequence of finite set of dice and sequence of some AC for which we can get arbitrarily close to any probability?
  • Dissapointed
  • The reasoning is that CA uses that tax money in addition to a match provided by the federal government to balance the budget. I’m not a fan of not making it permanent, but the flexibility of re-authorizing the tax each cycle has been very helpful to making sure the CA budget is level. That tax money is returned to the healthcare providers through Medi-Cal so they aren’t really losing anything I think, but the matched money from the federal government can be moved around. Something like that.

  • Why on gods green earth do people buy gift cards?
  • It’s not just a sale. Gift card money is invested and the company makes returns off of it, and all they have to do is provide you the base value of the gift card in coffee or whatever at some later date. Plus, if your purchases don’t add to a whole number, millions of gift cards with like 30 cents left over in each of them is a ton of free money for the company. Gift cards are a huge scam

  • Hungry 9
  • I’ve never really liked the anthropomorphic description of chemical bonding, but maybe it’s actually similar to the addition thing. On the one hand, we can say 9 wants to resolve to 10 and takes a 1, and on the other hand we could say there are a bunch of different ways we could rearrange these numbers but the end result is the same as if we resolve 9 to 10 first. Maybe chemical reactions are similar, so there’s a bunch of configurations that could have happened, but the end result is the same as if we had said fluorine wants that last electron

  • Tool Time
  • This requires the legs to be all the same height and the floor to cause the wobble. That doesn’t happen often irl, but I’ve done it a few times and it always makes me happy when it works

  • Yes, It’s Still Really Worth Avoiding COVID—Even If You’ve Already Had It a Few Times
  • Yea that makes sense. In this case most of the flight attendants had no trouble hearing me, except for one guy who really makes a big show of it. He’s often on the route between the cities I fly too so it wasn’t even a one time thing. Ive seen him a few times and he always does this specifically.

  • VRBO commercials are like the beginning of horror movies

    Why are they always so horrifying?

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    Can Voyager filter by language?

    I really only want English language posts and don’t want to scroll past dozens of results in French. Can we just filter by language?

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