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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Are you measurably more precise? One place I worked had a guy that was known to take almost twice as long to build up an assembly but they also worked the first time every time. Other people overall would not produce the same number of working assemblies in the same time. My suggestion to have him train others fell on deaf ears as Takt Time was pushed above FPY.

    If your precision shows up like that, you’ve got room to argue.









  • Sports betting tends to involve a “spread” so the favored team must win by a certain amount. So if team A is favored to win and the spread is 7, you lose a bet on them if they only win by 6 or less. The spread is chosen to induce a 50/50 split of bets. So if team A is favored and the spread is 7 half the people think they’ll win by more than 7 and the other half thinks they’ll lose or at least not win by 7 or more.

    These “prediction markets” pool all the money together and you get a portion of that pool depending on how much you wagered. So if you place $100 and are the only bet on the US bombing Iran on a specific date, and a 5 others bet $10000, you win $10100 (minus some fees) and they win nothing. If those 5 bet $2000 each, they’d only get $2020 each (minus some fees).







  • What are you hoping to gain from arguing? I have a Facebook “friend” that I have argued with on many occasions. I will never convince him of anything. In fact, there’s a good chance I’ve pushed him even further into his psychosis entrenching him even further in his echo chamber of bullshit. My goal isn’t to convince him. My goal is to have the counter-point to his asinine crazy readily available. Also, since he owns a local business and fully flaunts his idiocy, others have taken notice and it’s affected his business.