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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Hen Tune of the Day
Peaceable Dove, Utopia Setting Reserve, Queensland, Australia. “Reduce begins with tail up show then regular name from Peaceable Dove, decrease calls from Bar-shouldered dove, subsequent tail up show calls from Peaceable.”
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Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in reality a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
The Constitutional Order
“Temporary for Republican Nationwide Committee and Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee as Amici Curiae in Help of Petitioner” (PDF) [The United States Supreme Court]. “Temporary for Republican Nationwide Committee and Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee as Amici Curiae in Help of PetitionerHistorical context severely undermines the decrease court docket’s interpretation of Part Three. The Reconstruction Amendments “had been particularly designed as an enlargement of federal energy and an intrusion on state sovereignty.” Metropolis of Rome v. United States, 446 U.S. 156, 179 (1980). But the Colorado Supreme Court docket reworked Part Three right into a states’-rights superpower. In response to the court docket, the Reconstruction Congress gave state officers—right here, state courts and state election officers—the facility to resolve probably the most delicate political questions on loyalty and legitimacy, and to then resolve on that foundation who could stand for election to crucial place within the nationwide authorities. That declare—that the Reconstruction Congress gave States, together with former Accomplice States, the facility to independently resolve nationwide candidates’ {qualifications} with no congressional permission—is implausible.” • A great argument, however Republicans arguing forcefully towards states’-rights wasn’t on my Bingo card!
“‘This Week’ Transcript 1-7-24: Home Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi & Rep. Tony Gonzales” [FOX]. “STEPHANOPOULOS: So, Madam Speaker, when you consider he engaged in riot beneath the plain that means of the 14th Modification, you consider he’s ineligible to be president? PELOSI: These legal guidelines – , these are as much as the states. They’ve totally different legal guidelines from state to state. I don’t assume he ought to ever have been president. STEPHANOPOULOS: It’s the Structure.” • If by “these legal guidelines” Pelosi means poll {qualifications}, she’s proper, and Pelosi correcting Stephanopolous on some extent of regulation wasn’t on my Bingo card both.
“How Trump 2024 is Shaping Part Three of the Fourteenth Modification” [University of Baltimore Law Review]. “New Mexico residents have already used Part Three to disqualify County Commissioner Couy Griffin for his participation in January sixth. The court docket discovered that Griffin engaged in riot or rise up towards the US as a result of he “appeared at a Cease the Steal rally in Albuquerque together with the New Mexico Civil Guard” and “was a featured speaker on a multi-city bus tour to Washington DC.” On this tour, his aim “was to rally and inflame crowds and recruit them to return to Washington DC” on January sixth. If a court docket finds Trump was as concerned as Griffin within the January sixth assault on the Capitol, it may very nicely disqualify him from holding workplace. Nevertheless, of the 9 politicians that had been accused in court docket of violating Part Three attributable to their involvement with January sixth, courts have solely chosen to bar Griffin from workplace. One other chance is that, very similar to Consultant Greene, Trump’s actions will probably be too far faraway from the incident for him to be disqualified. Consultant Greene is the consultant for Georgia’s 14th district within the Home of Representatives. In the course of the January sixth assault, Consultant Greene posted a video on social media displaying assist for the contributors. The court docket discovered this proof inadequate to ascertain that Consultant Greene violated the Fourteenth Modification. The query turns into whether or not Trump’s actions are extra akin to Griffin’s lively recruiting or nearer to Consultant Greene’s passive assist.” • Hmm.
“Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney decries Trump as a risk to U.S. democracy” [The Dartmouth]. “All through her speech, Cheney closely criticized former President Donald Trump, stating that Trump’s try to ‘seize energy’ following the 2020 election ‘threaten[ed] the very foundations of our democracy.’ Cheney described Trump as ‘wicked’ and ‘derelict in his responsibility’ for failing to inform insurrectionists to go residence after many hours and expressed dissatisfaction with members of Congress who proceed to assist and endorse Trump.” • I’ve seen this speaking about emerge in the previous couple of days, together with in Biden’s “Valley Forge” speech. So cost him for it!
Capitol Seizure
GENIUS!
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Offered out, however pre-orders obtainable. On a distinct notice–
“Household of Ashli Babbitt Information $30 Million Wrongful Dying Motion” [Jonathan Turley]. “The long-awaited tort motion from the household of Ashli Babbitt has now been filed in Southern California. Babbitt was shot and killed on Jan. sixth and her household is looking for $30 million in a wrongful dying motion. Equally necessary, the lawsuit may pressure further solutions to why Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd shot and killed the unarmed protester as she tried to climb by a window close to the Home Chamber…. Babbitt, 35, was an Air Power veteran and Trump supporter who participated within the riot three years in the past. She was clearly committing legal acts of trespass, property harm, and different offenses. Nevertheless, the query is whether or not an officer is justified in capturing a protester when he admits that he didn’t see any weapon earlier than discharging his weapon.”
Biden Administration
2024
Lower than a 12 months to go!
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* * *Biden’s speech at Valley Forge:
Fascinating for a number of causes: The invitation-only viewers chanting “4 Extra Years,” Biden accountable for his schools, at the least through the speech (the stuff with Jill afterwards took awhile to enter the information cycle, after which solely by the Each day Mail, so far as I can see). He may very well consider what he’s saying; his hatred and contempt for Trump had been palpable. If the marketing campaign goes with “Let Biden be Biden,” that is what we’ll get. Biden is definitely comfy with the theme. I took a display shot from the video:
I bear in mind, again within the day, seeing the identical expression on George W. Bush’s face very often; the set of his jaw, the downturned mouth. Beneath the frat-boy demeanor, Bush was imply, a vicious S.O.B. Identical with Biden.
“Protesters disrupt Biden, president resumes remarks at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church” [Post and Courier]. From the reside protection: “Biden has been interrupted by protestors calling for a ceasefire in Palestine. ‘There’s blood in your arms,’ protestors shouted. Biden stopped and mentioned, ‘That’s alright.’ The viewers began chanting ‘4 extra years’ so loud that the demonstrators couldn’t be heard. Secret Service brokers promptly ushered the protesters out of the sanctuary. Biden resumed his speech, saying, ‘I perceive your ardour.’ Biden mentioned that he’s working with the Israeli authorities.” • The reporter tweets:
Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Palestine interrupted Biden’s speech at Mom Emanuel AME Church. “There’s blood in your arms,” they shouted earlier than Secret Service brokers eliminated them. pic.twitter.com/ajVo7Kk7bw
— jocelyn grzeszczak (@jocgrz) January 8, 2024
Curiously, they’ve obtained Biden happening the massive stairs once more. Perhaps they tinkered together with his dose?
“Obama, frightened about Trump, urges Biden circle to bolster marketing campaign” [WaPo]. “Obama’s dialog with Biden on the topic passed off throughout a personal lunch on the White Home in latest months, one of many folks mentioned, a gathering that has not been beforehand reported. Biden, who has lengthy used Obama as a sounding board, invited his former boss to lunch, and the 2 mentioned a variety of matters together with the 2024 election. In the course of the lunch, Obama famous the success of his reelection marketing campaign construction in 2012, when a few of his high presidential aides, together with David Axelrod and Jim Messina, left the White Home to take cost of the reelection operation in Chicago. That could be a sharp distinction from Biden’s strategy of leaving his closest aides on the White Home despite the fact that they’re concerned in all the important thing selections made by the marketing campaign. Obama additionally really useful that Biden search counsel from Obama’s personal former marketing campaign aides, which Biden officers say they’ve accomplished, the folks mentioned.” • This text is somewhat gauzy. I believe that Obama, by his nameless sources, is saying “Rent a few of my folks.” And he’s additionally, within the gentlest attainable manner, positioning the blame cannons (“Joe didn’t comply with my recommendation”).
“Biden marketing campaign responds to report on Obama warnings about Trump” [The Hill].
“Clyburn involved Biden marketing campaign isn’t breaking by ‘MAGA wall’” [The Hill]. “‘I’ve no downside with the Biden administration and what it has accomplished. My downside is that we now have not been capable of break by that MAGA wall to be able to get to folks precisely what this president has accomplished,’ Clyburn mentioned in an interview on CNN’s ‘State of the Union.’ Clyburn, a long-time South Carolina consultant within the Home, is commonly credited with serving to Biden’s marketing campaign finally clinch the 2020 Democratic nomination after successful the Palmetto State that 12 months. Biden received his first early contest within the South Carolina major, after securing Clyburn’s endorsement. Within the interview Sunday, Clyburn mentioned he has sat down with Biden to precise his issues concerning the Biden group’s reelection marketing campaign, however careworn he was ‘not frightened,’ however ‘very involved.’” • “Involved,” within the Beltway, means “hair on fireplace.”
“Home GOP Recommends Hunter Biden Be Held in Contempt of Congress” [The Daily Beast]. “Home Republicans filed a decision Monday requesting that Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress for defying a ‘vital’ deposition request associated to the GOP’s impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden…. If the decision passes the committees, the total Home—which has a slim Republican majority—will vote on whether or not Biden needs to be held in contempt of Congress. If that vote passes, the Home can then refer the advice to the Division of Justice, which might finally resolve if Biden needs to be criminally charged.”
Realignment and Legitimacy
“Trump allies search to co-opt coming election-security case to bolster 2020 lie” [WaPo]. The deck: “The largely left-leaning plaintiffs within the federal civil case going to trial this week in Georgia allege that the state’s voting machines are weak to hacking — not that they’ve been hacked.” Extra: “The folks U.S. District Court docket Choose Amy Totenberg declared to be not ‘conspiracy theorists of any selection’ are the largely left-leaning plaintiffs in a lawsuit that was filed in Georgia lengthy earlier than the 2020 election and that’s slated to go to trial this week. They argue that voting machines there current safety dangers that state officers are constitutionally obligated to deal with — they usually have the backing, Totenberg wrote, of ‘a few of the nation’s main cybersecurity consultants and pc scientists.’ A positive final result for the plaintiffs would have extraordinary implications: Georgia, one of many swing states that determined the final presidential election, may head into the 2024 cycle with machines {that a} federal decide has deemed dangerously weak to safety breaches, at the least as at present operated. Although it will be aimed toward guaranteeing a safer voting system, such a ruling may have unpredictable implications for the general public understanding of election integrity, notably whether it is mischaracterized by these looking for to sow doubt about previous and future elections.” • Nevertheless, digital voting machines are in a phishing equilibrium (encapsulated: “If fraud can occur, it’ll have already got occurred,” on the identical precept {that a} twenty greenback invoice mendacity on the street might be a discarded pretend, since someone would have already got picked up an actual one).
#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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Covid is Airborne
“Avoiding COVID was about extra than simply preserving 2 metres aside, examine finds” [EuroNews]. “Researchers from the Nuffield Division for Medication on the College of Oxford analysed knowledge from 7 million folks in England and Wales who, through the well being emergency, had been notified by the nation’s NHS COVID-19 app that that they had been in touch with somebody who was contaminated. The aim was to learn how a lot of these alerted truly contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus…. The researchers took benefit of this ‘treasure trove’ of knowledge to check the relation between distance and length of an encounter with an contaminated individual to see how this may affect the danger of somebody being contaminated. And it seems that length is as necessary as distance, if no more. ‘Everyone was focussed on the gap. There was this 1-metre or 2-metre distance rule in retailers, at stations. However distance ought to have by no means been the main target of it as a result of as we all know now, the reality is extra nuanced than that,’ Ferretti mentioned. ‘When you’re a brief distance from somebody, it’s the length that issues. Should you’re uncovered for 10 seconds, you have to be very unfortunate for the particles from the mouth of the contaminated individual to get to your mouth or your nostril. However when you keep there one hour, in fact yEou will attempt your luck 60 instances with respect to at least one minute.’” And: “The researchers discovered that longer exposures at higher distances had the same danger to shorter exposures at nearer distances….. [T]he longer somebody spent with one other one who was sick, the extra probably they had been to get sick themselves, even when they stored a 2-metre distance always.” • Droplet dogma wouldn’t predict this. Aerosol unfold would.
Even the historical past of aerosol transmission as been erased. Public well being has quite a bit to reply for:
These outdated NYC pre-war residences are designed that manner. So that you open the home windows within the winter and create cross air flow. The buildings had been designed that manner in direct response to 1918 pandemic and understanding airborne unfold https://t.co/GPd8E6jqEc
— thomas 🛠 IATSE STRIKE! (@t_NYC) January 7, 2024
Maskstravaganza
“They should make their very own selections”:
Persons are dying and turning into disabled from an airborne virus throughout this ongoing airborne pandemic and our authorities has dismantled public well being to the purpose that now extra airborne pathogens are inflicting extra hurt.
White Home: “No remark.” pic.twitter.com/tBA720mi6G
— Joaquín Beltrán for Congress #FreePalestine (@joaquinlife) January 6, 2024
Unbelievable physique language; leafing by the briefing guide is a really good contact!
Censorship and Propaganda
“Put together For The Final Gaslighting” [Julio Vincent Gambuto, WBUR]. From 2020 (!!!!):
Fairly quickly, because the nation begins to determine “reopen” and transfer ahead, very highly effective forces will attempt to persuade us all to get again to regular.
Billions of {dollars} will probably be spent on promoting, messaging and media content material to make you are feeling comfy once more. It’s going to are available in conventional types — a billboard right here, commercials there — and in new-media types, like memes.
In fact, you crave that feeling of normalcy. We wish desperately to really feel good once more, to get again to the routines of life, to not lie in mattress at evening questioning how we’re going to afford our lease and payments, to not wake to an limitless scroll of human tragedy on our telephones, to have a cup of completely brewed espresso and easily go away the home for work. The necessity for consolation will probably be actual, and it will likely be sturdy. And each model in America will come to your rescue, expensive client, to assist take away that darkness and get life again to the best way it was earlier than the disaster. I urge you to be nicely conscious of what’s coming.
He obtained that proper!
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Case Information
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater knowledge, January 5:
Lambert right here: Nonetheless going up. As a completely “intestine really feel” tapewatcher, I might anticipate this peak to fulfill or exceed the 2 earlier Biden peaks; in spite of everything, we haven’t actually begun the following bout of vacation journey, or the following rounds of superspreading occasions celebrations. Plus college students haven’t come from from college, after which returned. So a better peak appears just about “baked in.” And that’s earlier than we get to new variants, like JN.1. The actual factor to look at is the slope of the curve. If it begins to go vertical, and if it retains on doing so, then maintain onto your hats.
Lambert right here: Referred to as it. Impressively, the Biden administration has now blown by all earlier information, with the only exception of the Omicron, the highest of the leaderboard, a report additionally set by itself. Congratulations to the Biden group! I do know lots of people assume the height will come within the subsequent two weeks or so; I’d like to listen to at the least some anecdotal proof of that past the fashions (as a result of recall JN.1, whose peak that is, is extraordinarily infectious).
Regional knowledge:
Regional cut up continues. What’s extra worrisome is that the slope of the curve within the Northeast obtained steeper (though, as ever, Biobot knowledge is topic to backward revision).
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, January 6:
Lambert right here: JN.1 now dominates. That was quick.
CDC: “As of Might 11, genomic surveillance knowledge will probably be reported biweekly, primarily based on the supply of optimistic check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Appears to be like like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
Covid Emergency Room Visits
NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, December 30:
Lambert: Return to upward motion. Solely per week’s lag, so this can be our greatest present nationwide, present indicator.
NOTE “Charts and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not your complete pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “identical to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is suitable for bothMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these folks a lot. Discover additionally that this chart exhibits, at the least for its time interval, that Covid isn’t seasonal, despite the fact that CDC is making an attempt to get us to consider that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the present institutional equipment for injections. And naturally, we’re not even stepping into the standard of the wastewater websites that we now have as a proxy for Covid an infection general.
Hospitalization
Bellwether New York Metropolis, knowledge as of January 8:
Lambert right here: I just like the slope of that curve even much less, and we’re approaching earlier peak ranges (granted, not 2020 or 2022, however respectable).
NOT UPDATED Right here’s a distinct CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, at the least. December 30:
Shifting forward briskly!
Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Take a look at Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”. So the place the heck is the replace, CDC?
Positivity
Lambert right here: Discover that for each Walgreens and the Cleveland Clinic, that though the proportion of positives is steady, absolutely the numbers have enormously elevated; Walgreen’s doubled. This speaks nicely of individuals; they’re getting examined earlier than the vacations (and in face of a shit*tstorm barrage of propaganda and peer stress to attenuate, too).
NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, January 2:
1.1%. Up. (It will be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer stress, went and obtained examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From Cleveland Clinic, December 30:
Lambert right here: Proportion plateaued. Absolute numbers steadily growing.
From CDC, traveler’s knowledge, December 18:
Down, albeit within the rear view mirror. And listed below are the variants for vacationers, December 18:
Notice the chart has been revised to mirror that JN.1 is BA.2.86.1 (the numbers “roll over”).
Deaths
Right here is the New York Occasions, primarily based on CDC knowledge, December 30:
Stats Watch
There aren’t any official statistics of curiosity as we speak.
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The Financial system: “One of the vital generally cited recession indicators that’s been flashing pink has a significant flaw, NDR says” [Business Insider]. “One of the vital generally cited recession indicators is the Convention Board’s Main Financial Index, and it’s been flashing pink for practically two years. åThe forward-looking index has declined 20 months in a row, is down 12.6% from its peak two years in the past, and is down 7.6% over the previous 12 months. The index has by no means seen such a pointy and chronic decline with out an financial recession unfolding shortly thereafter. However this time may lastly be totally different because it seems the index has ‘cried wolf,’ Ned Davis Analysis mentioned in a latest notice. The agency highlighted why the financial index’s good monitor report of warning about an imminent recession might need lastly come to an finish. ‘The LEI could also be one other sufferer of pandemic associated distortions,’ NDR mentioned. That’s as a result of the underlying parts of the index weigh items too closely and companies not sufficient. That’s an issue when you think about that the make-up of as we speak’s financial system is roughly 85% companies. ‘5 of the ten indicators are goods-related and three are financial-related,’ NDR defined. Just one part of the LEI captures the companies financial system, and that’s unemployment claims. The heavy reliance on goods-focused parts is why the main index did not catch the sharp reacceleration within the US financial system through the second half of 2023, through which GDP grew by about 5% within the third-quarter.”
Manufacturing: “Alaska Airways accident may have been ‘far more tragic,’ NTSB official says” [NBC]. “Seats adjoining to the blowout, which occurred when a panel referred to as a door plug indifferent from the aircraft, weren’t occupied, and the plane’s altitude meant passengers had been probably seated with seatbelts in use, Nationwide Transportation Security Board Chair Jennifer Homendy mentioned throughout a information convention Saturday evening.” • Listed below are the 737 MAX seats to keep away from:
*Use AeroLopa*The place the plugs are on MAX 9s:
UA MAX 9/900/900ER – 30A/FAS MAX 9 – 25 & 26 A, 26 FCM MAX 9 – 27 A/FAM MAX 9 – 26 A/FFI MAX 9 – 24 A/F (no window)TK MAX 9 – 22&23 A/FTK 900ER (79B) – 20 A/FTK 900ER (79D) – 22&23 A/Fhttps://t.co/0ds94wygO1#AS1282 #AvGeek
— Seth Miller (@WandrMe) January 6, 2024
Manufacturing: On the “door plug” itself, an extended thread, excerpted:
Large if true. Maybe mechanical engineers and plane professionals within the readership can remark.
Manufacturing: “The door fell off”:
[Boeing Representative] It’s an excellent pleasure, thanks.
[Interviewer] This plane that was concerned within the incident over Oregon this week…
[Boeing Representative] Yeah, the one the place the door fell off?
[Interviewer] Yeah.
[Boeing Representative] That’s not very typical,… https://t.co/S3zwf3frMH
— Andi 🇦🇱🇺🇦 (e/alb) (@Nexuist) January 7, 2024
Newer readers is probably not conscious that that is an homage “The Entrance Fell Off”, by the good Australian comedy duo Clark & Dawe (right here very, very younger):
Manufacturing: The system labored:
2/ For the folks on board, it was a harrowing, even terrifying, jiffy.
However the coaching, plane design, engineering, security, inspections — the fail-safe system labored.
One thing went improper. However that failure was stopped.
Nice WSJ story…https://t.co/M4s9NyQuG2
— (((Charles Fishman))) 💧 (@cfishman) January 6, 2024
Helpful perspective, however certainly the system is coming ever nearer to not working?
Manufacturing: “Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder knowledge erasure renews security debate” [Reuters]. “The cockpit voice recorder knowledge on the Alaska Airways Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet which misplaced a panel mid-flight on Friday was overwritten, U.S. authorities mentioned, renewing consideration on an trade name for longer in-flight recordings. Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) chair Jennifer Homendy mentioned on Sunday no knowledge was obtainable on the cockpit voice recorder as a result of it was not retrieved inside two hours – when recording restarts, erasing earlier knowledge. The U.S. requires cockpit voice recorders to log two hours of knowledge versus 25 hours in Europe for planes made after 2021. The Worldwide Civil Aviation Group (ICAO) has since 2016 referred to as for 25-hour recording on pl anes manufactured from 2021. ‘There was quite a bit occurring, on the flight deck and on the aircraft. It’s a really chaotic occasion. The circuit breaker for the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) was not pulled. The upkeep group went out to get it, however it was proper at concerning the two-hour mark,’ Homendy mentioned.” • Whoops.
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Right now’s Concern & Greed Index: 72 Greed (earlier shut: 73 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 75 (Excessive Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jan 8 at 1:53:07 PM ET.
Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. Document Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 188. (Keep in mind that bringing on the Rapture is nice.) NOTE on #42 Plagues: “The coronavirus pandemic has maxed out this class.” Extra trustworthy than most! • What are they ready for? A pink heifer?
The 420
“Cannabinoids Block Mobile Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Rising Variants” [Journal of Natural Products]. From 2022, nonetheless germaine. In vitro. Commentary:
Omg the meme is (kinda) actual https://t.co/ZPuB7xwUrO pic.twitter.com/1HhAdtlWCe
— Gonzo 𓅃 (@adgodev) January 7, 2024
Little question!
Information of the Wired
“What actually has a 1 in one million likelihood?” [Berkeley]. From a statistics class: “20 coin tosses (by me) all developing Tails. YES… Should you tossed the cash then the primary reply can be NO, except I’m very assured you lack the flexibility to idiot me …”
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