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on Probability · c/mathmemes · 25 pts · 40d

Nah it's a paradox. There's no such thing as just a freestanding Monte Carlo test that you can just "run" - you do actually need to define enough parameters to make it tell you anything.

This kind of self-referential stuff feels like a proof of Gödel's incompleteness theorems with extra steps.

In this case, that could be strategic voting. We in Michigan can vote for either the blue or the red primary (no party commitment ahead of time), but it has to be consistent the whole way down.

James was clearly going to win, so the strategic option for team red was to vote for whichever blue candidate they'd rather face in the general for this more competitive race.

on The speed of light · c/science_memes · 6 pts · 102d

You're already traveling at the speed of light minus 1m/s relative to a reference frame that's traveling away from you at that speed.

You're absolutely right! It's not just flawed — it's impossible to enforce.

/s

More seriously, the core issue isn't completely novel to large established open-source projects. How do they deal with the possibility that someone might be contributing code from, say, a closed-source competing product (or one whose licence is otherwise incompatible)?

The same answer ought to work here, probably.

/uj

I had to look it up.

Source confirming the main part of OP's post: https://telex.hu/zacc/2026/04/16/mi-a-fenet-jelent-az-hogy-abszolut-filmszinhaz

And then the term you'd want to look up for the claim about his last name is "endonym", though you also don't need to look further than the intro on this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Hungary