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Gober argued there’s a difference between "randomly’ and “by chance”.

What’s the difference?

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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.

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29 points

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

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24 points

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

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“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.”

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19 points

one of them hopefully won’t get in trouble

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14 points

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how's this for your edit?

The spelling, for starters

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10 points

Getting a response within 17 minutes on hexbear???

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For a gimme.

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