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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Gober argued there's a difference between "randomly' and "by chance".

What's the difference?

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Edit

It's been ~17 minutes and I'm almost disappointed in Hexbear. There's been no snark that one is an adverb and the other is a prepositional phrase.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Randomly is when I find an event inside of a probability space. By chance is when I find a $100 bill on the ground.

[–] 2812481591@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

your honor, there's no law saying I can't make a normal distribution with a kurtosis of 1 trillion.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Your honor, while there may be such a mathematical concept of randomness we can't produce it as such even in the modern computing era. Therefore, all things considered that there is no actual randomness, we cannot say that our chosen winner has been chosen randomly as such. I rest my case."

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

one of them hopefully won't get my-hero in trouble

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

::: spoiler how's this for your edit?
The spelling, for starters

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Getting a response within 17 minutes on hexbear???