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25 Oct 02:03

quejero: <3 misspaperlilies: this is making me feel really...

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this is making me feel really really anxious

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25 Oct 02:01

Mudar o S.O.

by André Farias

“Windows deixará de ser atualizado em 20 milhões de PCs no Brasil”

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Mudar o S.O. é um post do blog Vida de Suporte.

25 Oct 02:01

Parece que no lo quieren ver por @javimoya

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25 Oct 02:01

Precaución al volante por @Dalirante

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25 Oct 02:01

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25 Oct 02:01

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25 Oct 01:20

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24 Oct 11:26

GUEST: What time opens Chelsea?
CONCIERGE: Chelsea Market?
GUEST: No, just Chelsea.
CONCIERGE: Well it’s a neighborhood, sir.
GUEST: (annoyed) Yes, I know that!
CONCIERGE: It’s open all day and night.
GUEST: But what time does it open?
CONCIERGE: Is it maybe - are you looking for a particular business?
GUEST: No, I am looking for Chelsea.
CONCIERGE: It’s just a neighborhood of New York.
GUEST: Yes. But what time does it open??
CONCIERGE: There’s no set time. During the day you can go to brunch, go shopping, walk the Highline, and at night there’s lots of great bars and restaurants that I can recommend if you’re looking-
GUEST: (very annoyed) What. Time. Does. It. Open.

(We look at each other)

CONCIERGE: 8am.
GUEST: Great, thank you!

firehose, Leonardo Moulin Franco and -1 others like this

24 Oct 10:53

TIL In 2007 it was reported that only 4 percent of olive oil leaving Italy was pure Italian olive oil due to counterfeiting which is as profitable as cocaine smuggling with half the risk.

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24 Oct 10:53

A partir de ahí, todos a la cárcel por @yo2punto0

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23 Oct 23:20

Nontransitive Dice

by Greg Ross

Label the faces of a fair set of dice with these numbers:

Die A: 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 6
Die B: 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5
Die C: 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

This gives them a curious property. In the long run Die A will tend to beat Die B, Die B will tend to beat Die C, and Die C will tend to beat Die A. The three dice form a ring in which each die beats its successor. No matter which die our opponent chooses, we can select another that is likely to beat it.

Business magnate Warren Buffet once challenged Bill Gates to such a game using four nontransitive dice. “Buffett suggested that each of them choose one of the dice, then discard the other two,” wrote Janet Lowe in her 1998 book Bill Gates Speaks. “They would bet on who would roll the highest number most often. Buffett offered to let Gates pick his die first. This suggestion instantly aroused Gates’s curiosity. He asked to examine the dice.”

“It wasn’t immediately evident that because of the clever selection of numbers for the dice, they were nontransitive,” Gates said. “Assuming the dice were rerolled, each of the four dice could be beaten by one of the others.” He invited Buffett to choose first.

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23 Oct 01:10