Comments on: For lack of a nail http://trilema.com/2013/for-lack-of-a-nail/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:36:25 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: The Needed on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2013/for-lack-of-a-nail/#comment-164144 The Needed on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 25 May 2021 16:45:47 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=48598#comment-164144 [...] hang him, as he intended and was adequate. So America gained another Bufallo Bill, and sense lost another nail. [↩]From experience, there is always and without exception a woman. I can't remember when [...] [...] hang him, as he intended and was adequate. So America gained another Bufallo Bill, and sense lost another nail. [↩]From experience, there is always and without exception a woman. I can't remember when [...]

]]> By: The disadvantages of living among idiots on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2013/for-lack-of-a-nail/#comment-139728 The disadvantages of living among idiots on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:25:49 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=48598#comment-139728 [...] instead count the results of the want of a nail. So, because an airplane that should have been maintained wasn't properly maintained, Romania has [...] [...] instead count the results of the want of a nail. So, because an airplane that should have been maintained wasn't properly maintained, Romania has [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2013/for-lack-of-a-nail/#comment-93958 Mircea Popescu Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:40:27 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=48598#comment-93958 Possibly the simplest way to put this : you do believe that reducing the max bet has the virtue of improving your risk-of-ruin outlook on the same capital basis, but you do not believe that incresing the max bet has the virtue of hurting <i>the player's</i> risk-of-ruin outlook on the same capital basis. Well why the hell ? Possibly the simplest way to put this : you do believe that reducing the max bet has the virtue of improving your risk-of-ruin outlook on the same capital basis, but you do not believe that incresing the max bet has the virtue of hurting the player's risk-of-ruin outlook on the same capital basis. Well why the hell ?

]]> By: the guy http://trilema.com/2013/for-lack-of-a-nail/#comment-93957 the guy Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:08:44 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=48598#comment-93957 ... but only if you deliberately use an inferior strategy. When I double the max bet, you're not obliged to bet bigger. If doing so increases your expected losses then you shouldn't do it. But then, you shouldn't be playing -EV dice games at all, by that standard. ... but only if you deliberately use an inferior strategy. When I double the max bet, you're not obliged to bet bigger. If doing so increases your expected losses then you shouldn't do it.

But then, you shouldn't be playing -EV dice games at all, by that standard.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2013/for-lack-of-a-nail/#comment-93952 Mircea Popescu Tue, 16 Jul 2013 03:59:12 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=48598#comment-93952 It doesn't reduce my chances of walking away with a profit, it improves the likeliness of my walking away with a loss. It doesn't reduce my chances of walking away with a profit, it improves the likeliness of my walking away with a loss.

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