Re: Risk of Ruin
 

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I hate to tell you this but your simplistic approach to the issue, as well as the original poster's grasp of it, indicate a profound misunderstaning of a key gamblinc concept, namely the Risk of Ruin.

If you cannot realize that once your are ruined (dead), you cannot come back and play another day (live again), then you have understood nothing about RoR.



Your life cannot be divided into percentages. Getting killed is irreversible. This cannot be "repeated a hundred times".

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ya this isn't my simplistic approach. I was just solving the problem that was presented.

Re: Risk of Ruin
 

Perhaps it is more appropriate to question the question then to answer it.

The question as posed has many answers, most likely none of them are correct and all of them are correct. THAT point was obvious when I first read it.

Thunder And Lightning
 

To even imply, let alone explicitly claim as BruceZ did (albeit in a somewhat tipsy manner), that almost all problems dicussed in the politics forum can be "solved mathematically" is beyond a fallacy.

It's hybris.

For those that are religious, you gotta atone for your brothers sin!

For those that are not but are math'matically inclined, same chore.

Re: Thunder And Lightning
 

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...let alone explicitly claim as BruceZ did (albeit in a somewhat tipsy manner), that almost all problems dicussed in the politics forum can be "solved mathematically" is beyond a fallacy.

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Where exactly did BruceZ claim that?

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It's hybris.

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A hybrid form of hubris?

Could "hybris" perhaps be a tipsy form of hubris?

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For those that are religious, you gotta atone for your brothers sin!

For those that are not but are math'matically inclined, same chore.

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Please see my post entitled, "Hark, Cyrus!"

Atonement will not be required. The future will be what counts (and will count very heavily, if you get my drift).

Beyond the Homeric sense
 

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Could "hybris" perhaps be a tipsy form of hubris?



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"Hybris" is actually the original spelling of the word - and the closest to the greek orthography.

Re: A terroristic problem
 

The main problem with this is that the power is given to an organization which in mainy cities doesn't understand how to use lethal force properly.

i.e. If a homeless person is threatening you with a tiny screwdriver...you don't shoot the person 10 times in order to subdue them. They're called tasers.

i.e. If a man with a gun is holding an infant you don't have all 15 officers shoot thru the infant in order to kill the suspect.
I'm skilled enough with a firearm that if you were holding a infant in your arms...I could easily shoot you in the head from 10-20 yards 9/10 times. That's with a handgun.
A sniper with a scope would be much more effective and precise.

i.e. terror leads to hysteria which leads to make ppor decisions on shitty intelligence which usually is a result of the hysteria. If you placed LAPD or NYPD in your given scenerio it wouldn't be unlikly that several people might be mistaken for terrorists and shot in the head during a "terror alert"