Interesting Links for 04-11-2017
Nov. 4th, 2017 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC
- (tags: politics money usa )
- Monty Hall and the game show stick-or-switch conundrum
- (tags: mathematics games )
- $1000 smart teapot discontinued (how will I cope?)
- My favourite bit is when they talk about how they would have needed more time to "educate the market". Because clearly and people who didn't want a $1000 teapot simply lacked education.
(tags: tea Technology fail ) - Republican sacked for slagging Prince George loses unfair dismissal fight
- (tags: monarchy UK jobs )
- Great moments in standards committees: 1F979 - the frowning pile of poo
- (tags: standards faeces Technology )
- Apparently Mark Ruffalo And Kevin Feige Have Planned A Special Trilogy For The Hulk
- (tags: movies marvel hulk )
- LA Times: You can’t read our Thor review because Disney is angry
- (tags: Disney reviews media )
- If Your Vibrator Is Hacked, Is It a Sex Crime?
- (tags: sex hacking rape )
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Date: 2017-11-04 01:49 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, here's a GBP 200 tea-maker (USD $250) that runs on just about any loose-leaf tea you want, and does the job really really well (says one very satisfied owner who drinks maybe 2-5 litres of tea per day). No DRM — mind you, no wifi only, but I can brew my tea secure in the knowledge that it's not going to be coopted to mine bitcoins or send spam on my power bill.
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Date: 2017-11-04 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-11-04 03:48 pm (UTC)However, that's not the point of the problem, which is the refusal of many to believe that, even under the specified conditions, the probability is 2/3rds. They will say things like "Monty is starting a new game," but he isn't. What they fail to realize is that the probability of success on switching is dependent on the probability that you picked the right door the first time.
Good comment on the Disney/LA Times fuss. Final line: "What a bunch of infants." And yes, he means Disney.
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Date: 2017-11-04 08:44 pm (UTC)what I want to know is did you get to keep the goat?
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Date: 2017-11-04 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-11-04 05:10 pm (UTC)Talkingpointsmeme Josh Marshall has an editorial with links and further context.
(sorry, typos!)
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Date: 2017-11-04 05:12 pm (UTC)Have already got one follow-up in the queue for tomorrow. Will read these later too!
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Date: 2017-11-04 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-11-06 12:42 pm (UTC)