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On average, how often would a pair of aces win a hand?
I dealt at a fairly large hold-em tournament last weekend, and 4 of 5 times AA was shown the hand lost. The one time it won it was because a 3rd A came up on the river to beat 2 pairs.
On average, how often would a pair of aces win a hand?
I dealt at a fairly large hold-em tournament last weekend, and 4 of 5 times AA was shown the hand lost. The one time it won it was because a 3rd A came up on the river to beat 2 pairs.
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Against a full table of random hands, AA will win under 30% of the time.
Against any individual random hand, AA will win 85% of the time.
Presumably, your tournament featured full tables. That means that if you play the hand in a way that keeps too many opponents in the hand, you are going to lose very frequently. In the long run, it will be slightly less often than you experienced, but not by much.
This is part of the reasoning behind the advice to play AA aggressively in order to narrow the field.
AA percentage of against one random hand is 85% for win (all-in preflop).
Probability is not distributed symmetric or something, you have 4 of 5 times then you hit this 15% but in long term you will be profitable from that EV+ decisions!
AA is going to lose a high percentage of the time that it is shown down after the river card has been dealt. This is because the person playing AA is expecting it to win unimproved, meanwhile the opponent has some other hand that has been willing to bet and/or call all the way. The opponent can most likely beat a single pair.
I suspect AA did better as a hand in your tournament than you think. It just won a bunch of small pots that did not make it to the showdown.
Here is a great tool for calculating odds/chances for specific hands.www.propokertools.com.
The link sends you directly to a simulation of AA vs all types of hands.


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I love New Mexican food as much as anyone yet I like to try something other than green chile sometimes. I know, I know. That sentiment is sacrilege here in Albuquerque. But consider expanding your palate and you might stumble upon such gems as the Talking Drums restaurant on San Pedro. It's easy to find with it's clear signage and there is plenty of parking. The restaurant itself is super clean and tidy, which I appreciate as a diner, with comfy booths and spotless tables.
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Suya is a West African specialty somewhat akin to the kebab. As part of this appetizer sampler, it is served sans skewer and mixed with raw diced onions. You'll love puff-puff, a fried bread which can also be served as a dessert by adding syrup and shredded coconut. My favorite of this little quartet is moin moin. It has almost the same consistency as tofu, which makes sense since both are bean curds.
Moin Moin is made from steamed beans which are served here with minimal additions. This makes it a perfect selection for vegetarians. However, Alex told us that in Nigeria, it is typically steamed along with egg, meat, or other tasty morsels. And it did taste marvelous alongside the suya so I'd be curious to try the Nigerian moin moin. And lastly, we have fried plantains. So very delicious!
My lunch companion and I shared a large plate of rice and brown beans with stew. To this, we added meaty, generously-sized goat joints.
The beans in the dish weren't under-cooked yet kept their shape. Topping the combo was a tomato-based stew, flavored with chili peppers which give it a little kick. Not overly spicy but quite flavorful.
And lastly, take a look at these drinks! You must try the palm "wine" from Ghana. It's made from the sap of palm trees and slightly fermented. It has a low alcohol content but you'll still feel it if you drink a large bottle! It is a perfect complement to the West African cuisine. If that doesn't entice you, try a non-alcoholic Jamaican ginger beer.
On your way out, go next door to the Zenith African/Caribbean market. The family has owned and operated the store for many years but only since February have they integrated the restaurant and shop in the larger space they currently occupy. It's well-stocked and tidy so you'll easily find something to take home.

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Like most columns, these musings frequently rely on hours of hard digging and analysis by determined journalists. It leaves me free to comment on their report. Today's offering is a case in point. Three legislative issues just itch to be addressed. On the top of my mind are some further thoughts about ALEC, the size of our Florida prison population and the ease with which a majority of our state House legislators turned down a few billion in federal Medicaid dollars.
First, a word about our outsized prison population. As the state felony laws demand more long-term prison sentences, we join the nation in locking up more of our fellow citizens than any other advanced civilization. We have 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of the world's prisoners. We have locked up 2.2 million people or one in every 107 adults. It is hard to believe that Americans are four times as likely to choose a life of crime as Egyptians, Japanese, Frenchmen, Greeks, Italians, Brazilians or Brits. Drug sales, sometimes of tiny amounts, account for a large share of the mandatory sentencing in the U.S. Given the cost of incarceration, shorter sentences, rehab programs and the teaching of a viable trade or skill might save the state a lot of money. Added to the prison population, in Florida and some other states, we have substituted jails for both long- and short-term mental health facilities.
ALEC, which stands for American Legislative Exchange Council, is a big business-supported nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to promote a narrow conservative agenda in state legislatures across the country. Funds come in from AT&T, Bank of America, Comcast, Duke Power, which supplies much of our states' electricity, Exxon Mobil, Publix, State Farm and dozens of other heavy hitters. All have an interest in favorable statehouse legislation. ALEC had its big annual meeting earlier this month. Our popular former Gov. Jeb Bush was featured as kickoff speaker. The cost for their ALEC speaker fees, research, bill creation, meetings and entertainment are borne by the corporate members who join with state legislators across the country in crafting new cookie-cutter laws.
We are a convention attending country. Realtors have their big annual get-together, as do plumbers, lawyers and newspaper publishers. Conservative state legislators have ALEC. It was ALEC that crafted the model voter registration bills adopted by a number of state legislatures and proved such an embarrassment to Florida in the last presidential election. Fortunately, the nation did not need to wait a couple of days to determine Florida's vote to know that Mitt Romney lost. That embarrassment was cleaned up in a revised Florida voter law this year. Good thing for both Republicans and Democrats. The effort to use voter ID and fewer early voting days boomeranged. African-Americans were so motivated by the voting hurdles that across the country a larger percentage of registered African-American voters went to the polls than registered white voters.
My final big beef with the Legislature is its rejection of the billions that would have circulated in the state over the next 10 years to provide health care for the neediest of our citizens under Medicaid. Legislators have denied medical coverage to a million of our poorest citizens. The same Florida House that turned away the federal dollars has taken care of itself. Legislating may be a part-time job but they reward themselves with full-time medical coverage. Legislators pay just $8.34 a month for full coverage or $30 a month for full family coverage with the rest of the premium picked up by the state.
It is hard to perceive the majority's action as anything but mean-spirited indifference in denying medical coverage to one million of Florida's citizens. Rejecting the federal dollars that go with this program will save us no money. We will still pay the federal taxes that flow to the states that accept this section of Obamacare. In addition, hospitals, by law, must provide emergency care even if there is no way to collect for the service. Eventually they will pass on the costs to the rest of us.
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Most of the talk centered around the board's displeasure with a statewide proposal to change the graduation requirements for the Class of 2017.
High school principal Rob Zitzelsberger explained to the five-member panel that the Ohio Education Association wants to do away with the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGTs) and institute a plan that would have each student taking 10 end-of-the-year exams.
"The magic number to graduate would be 25 points," he told the board and those in attendance. "They would have the rigor of the ACT."
Board member Jerry Moore voiced his displeasure.
"It upsets you to the point that they're not giving the kids a chance," he said. "It just aggravates you."
Superintendent Ted Downing said the state's proposal should be included in next school year's student handbook, and marked accordingly.
Moore, along with fellow board member Roger Stewart, suggested that the board invite state lawmakers Lou Gentile and Jack Cera to a meeting.
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11 Old War Photographs You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
War is hell, but as we've demonstrated previously (twice, even), it's also often bizarre to look at. When you start sifting through rare photos of secret projects and behind-the-scenes shenanigans that didn't make into the history books, you get lots of pictures that just look downright fake. Like ...
#11. Dazzle Ships
Before the invention of radar, naval battles were like a hardcore version of Marco Polo: Each side blindly lobbed shots at the other in hopes of connecting with something (yes, the board game Battleship was actually a fairly realistic representation). So ships of the early 20th century tried to make it even harder for their opponents by blending into the water with light-colored paint schemes. That is, until the British decided to try something a little ... different.
"Now you too can experience the joys of sea sickness without having to set foot on a boat!"
Called "dazzle" camouflage, the idea was to cover the ships in psychedelic designs that made it damn nigh impossible for an enemy spotter to determine speed, distance, and type of craft when spying the ships from afar. Try to stare hard at one of these -- your brain will start to hurt:
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It's like nautical Magic Eye.
The camouflage saw widespread use during World War I and (to a lesser degree) World War II, but it ultimately died out when the introduction of LSD allowed enemy spotters to operate on the same plane of consciousness as those creating the designs.
#10. Heil America!
This is not a still from some old "What if the Nazis win the war?" propaganda film. That is a real, undoctored photo of an American classroom.
You see, Hitler ruined several perfectly good things forever -- tiny mustaches, the swastika as a good luck charm, and all hand signals that look anything like the "Heil Hitler" salute. But Hitler didn't invent any of them.
For instance, in 1892, Francis Bellamy decided that your average American just wasn't pissing quite enough red, white, and blue. To counter this, he came up with the Pledge of Allegiance, along with a nifty little hand gesture to do while taking the pledge.
... one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
That's right: For decades, children across America happily heiled the Stars 'n' Stripes in what was then known as the Bellamy salute. Then along came this big, bald bag of dicks:
His beret is actually covering up foreskin and giant pee hole.
That's Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. When he came to power, he resurrected the so-called Roman salute, and Hitler thought that shit looked so badass that he later adopted it as his own Nazi salute. This caused an obvious conflict when America entered World War II -- we couldn't very well have born-and-bred American kids doing the same salute as the Hitler Youth, and Nazis were notoriously ignorant of the concept of dibs. So during the war, Roosevelt signed off on a new salute proposed by Congress, and placing the right hand over the heart narrowly beat out flying the double bird in Germany's general direction.
#9. They Stayed in Formation, Right Until They Crashed
As much as that looks like the aftermath of the most cartoonish disaster in military history, it is actually just the product of space-saving efficiency and horrific waste.
Back in the days when countries would actually disarm once the war was over, fighter planes (which were basically useless in peacetime and couldn't be resold for civilian purposes) would just be scrapped. So these Curtiss P-40 Warhawks ($44,892 each to build in 1944 -- that's $590,000 in today's dollars) were scrapped and melted down. To save space as they awaited their fate, the planes were arranged like they'd taken a mass nosedive in perfect formation and somehow stuck neatly in the mud instead of exploding.
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This is just a single site: Walnut Ridge airfield in Arkansas. All over the world, there were thousands of planes lined up like this, just begging for some smartass to happen by and play him some warplane dominoes.
#8. Boardwalk Empire?
HBO's Boardwalk Empire features a character named Richard Harrow, a former World War I sniper whose face was horribly disfigured when he got face-sniped by an enemy marksman. In what seems like a purely Hollywood touch to make him look more terrifying, Harrow covers his brutalized face with a lifelike mask that attaches to his head via eyeglasses:
"Things I dislike: The Kaiser, feds, soup ..."
But it turns out that Harrow's plight is based on similarly wounded vets of the early 20th century. Decades before things like facial surgery and skin grafts were commonplace, disfigured vets covered their horrible wounds with facial plates just like the one featured on the show. There are more examples out there, but we wouldn't recommend looking at them if you happen to be reading this article while eating or before bed.
And don't worry, it wasn't just faces that got state-of-the-art protection from concerned scientists of the day. Wartime inventiveness also gave us ...
#7. Industrial Breast Protectors
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When the men moved to the front during World War II, the women entered a new environment as well: the factory floor. As the Rosie Riveters and Wendy Welders were performing jobs they had never done before, men became very concerned about their safety. Well, the safety of particular parts of them, at least. So Acme developed the industrial plastic boulder holder that this young gal is so kindly demonstrating.
After all, if we endanger the boobies, what do our boys overseas have left to come home to?
#6. American Pyramid of Skulls ... Er, Helmets
Even after World War I was over, the American government decided that it needed one more bond drive to raise enough cash to tie up any loose ends. Dubbed the Victory Liberty Loan parade, the party visited New York City in May of 1919 and set up a huge display of American guns and various pillars and pyramids smack in the middle of Madison Avenue. Pyramids made of the helmets of (presumably dead) German soldiers.
Yes, harking back to the days of the victory pyramids that the Mongols decorated Asia with, America decided that we needed some victory pyramids of our very own. In case you're not familiar with the pyramids we're referring to, we mean those constructed of skulls that the men of the horde lovingly cleaned and polished after having severed them from their previous owners. That's right: Someone had the bright idea that reminding American citizens that each and every one of those helmets represented a dead or captured German soldier would inspire them to donate to the post-war drive.
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WATERBURY — There has been a rebirth of sorts in the Naugatuck High football program. You'll have to excuse the Greyhounds if they are just a bit excited.
Naugy opened the Coach Craig Bruno era with a resounding 39-8 victory Friday night at Crosby High over the Bulldogs.
"I thought we played very well," Bruno said. "I was very happy with the way we came out. It was a great start to my career here with a kickoff return on the first play."
Bruno arrived from Bunnell in Stratford with a reputation as a high-octane offensive coach. The Greyhounds wasted no time getting their passing game going as they used it as the primary source for scoring 33 points in the first quarter.
Bryan Burke returned the opening kickoff 70 yards for a touchdown, but in three of the next four Naugy possessions, the Greyhounds had at least one pass play of 40 yards or longer.
"Our offense has such explosive players," said quarterback Jason Bradley, who finished 8-for-13 for 245 yards and three touchdowns.
"We have Ryne Griesenauer at split end and Bryan Coney. We also have Rick Plasky, Malik Brooks, Chris Quarles, Kevin Robinson. The list never ends, and then we have Jourdon Hopkins and Tom Douty in the backfield. Or offensive line is unbelievable. We have so many weapons on offense, we can score at will."
The Greyhounds' first offensive possession was highlighted by a 47-yard trick play on the first play from scrimmage.
Naugy faked a reverse and turned it into a flea flicker with Bradley passing to Cooney to the 1-yard line. Bradley scored on a keeper on the next play.
"I was excited when (Bruno) came here because I knew he wanted to throw the ball a lot," Bradley said. "We ran simple plays in scrimmages, but today we came
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Bradley was intercepted by Crosby's Jayson Morrison on the second series, but he redeemed himself in his third possession with a 65-yard touchdown pass to Griesenauer for an 18-0 lead.
"There is just so much excitement here," Griesenauer said. "Last year we had more ground-and-pound. This year, we spread it out, and it is very explosive and gives us a lot of opportunities to make plays. Jay has faith in us, and we have faith in him to make big plays."
The Greyhounds went 70 yards in three plays in their next possession with passes of 40 and 22 yards to Griesenauer setting up an eight-yard touchdown pass to Coney followed by a two-point conversion pass to Kevin Robinson Jr. for a 26-0 lead.
Naugy finally went to its ground game a little in its next possession with Hopkins starting a short touchdown drive with a 14-yard run and finishing it with a 1-yard run. Coney added a 15-year catch and Robinson a 10-yard reception in the drive.
Crosby had a few notable performances turned in by Chris Herrera (10 carries, 41 yards), backup quarterback Mike Marshall (12-for-17, 95 yards) and Myles Goulbourne (four catches, 49 yards).
But the day clearly belonged to the poised, talented Bradley and his weapons.
Griesenauer, who finished the scoring with a 38-yard touchdown pass to open the second half, said the Greyhounds love Bruno's desire to spread the ball around and give different players opportunities to make plays.
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If you are ready for some football, this dish is ready for a party! It's an easy variation of the traditional 7 layer dip with a design that will make extra points!
7 Layer Touchdown Makes 12 Servings
16 ounces refried beans -- (1 can)
1 large tomato -- seeded and diced
1 bunch green onions -- chopped
1 cup sour cream
1 packet taco seasoning mix
2 tablespoons mayonnaise -- (real)
1 cup black olives -- sliced
2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
3/4 cup guacamole
6 pieces leaf lettuce -- large
1/2 cup sour cream
1. Take a disposable 9 inch pie plate and fold in half. Bow out the two sides to create more of an oval shape with pointed ends. Line the pie plate with cling wrap.
2. Spread the refried beans in an even layer. Sprinkle the tomatoes and green onions evenly over the beans.
3. Stir together the sour cream, taco mix, and mayonnaise. Spread in an even layer over the tomatoes and onions.
4. Layer the black olives over the sour cream. Sprinkle the cheddar cheese over the olives. Spread the guacamole over the cheese and seal it together completely.
5. Lay the lettuce leaves over the guacamole. Place a tray face down over the lettuce and flip over. Using the pie pan, form the shape of an oval. Remove the pan, and use the plastic wrap to shape like a football. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
6. Put the half cup of sour cream in a small sandwich bag and clip the tip. Draw the stripes on the two ends, and the stitches. Serve with chips.
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Is there a way to rotate each row in a row by 25 Degrees,
in Illustrator or Photoshop,
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Is there a way to rotate each row in a row by 25 Degrees,
I'd do this in Illustrator, because it's a lot easier than Photoshop for this particular task, especially if you want to maintain full edibility and easy control over font, leading and be able to paste text in for all labels.
Step 1 — Draw a text box.
Draw a text box, paste your text in, set a vague font, size and leading, and right align your text.
Step 2 — Rotate as needed.
This doesn't need to be perfect, as you can edit later if needed.
Step 3 — Edit shape.
Edit the shape so it contains a flat edge at the top, using the Direct Selection Tool (which lets you edit single points, rather than the entire shape).
The result can be pasted in to Photoshop as a Smart Object, if you'd like.
In Photoshop, simply select all the text layers you want to rotate then go to Edit > Transform > Rotate (or
Similarly, in illustrator select your text and go to object > transform > rotate or use the transform panel located in the top bar.
In Illustrator, simply select the text object and enter your rotation degree on the Transform panel or the Control Bar across the top of the screen.
Illustrator: Select all of the text to rotate, right click > transform > transform each > Rotate as desired.
Alternate method: change all text to right justify, select all text and rotate to desired angle, open pathfinder, click align tab, align to top button (assuming you want to align it underneath the graph as pictured above)


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I was asked this question by a friend's daughter a few days back, and I was interested to see what people here think. I realize of course that this is quite subjective, but still, I get the impression that certain fields, like algebraic geometry, require much more "initial outlay' in terms of absorbing difficult concepts than others, before one can contribute. So, what are your experiences ? Is there any consensus among mathematicians about which areas are especially "hard" or "difficult to get into" ?
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Are we really making the right coins from a mathematical point of view? Is a penny,a nickel, a dime a quarter and 1,5,10,20,50 and 100 dollars bills the optimal configuration? Or is there a better configuration that can be more useful? What do you think. I came up with this question because I was thinking about the metric system and how it was a lot more intuitive and I wondered if the same was true about currency.
As others have said, it depends on how you define "optimal".
I'm going to assume you asked: "What set of coin denominations minimizes the number of coins required in a cash transaction, assuming that all 100 possible values for the dimes/cents places are equally likely?" (This assumption isn't quite true in reality because of things like vending machines that don't accept pennies. There's also 99¢ psychological pricing, but sales tax tends to cancel that out.)
I shall further assume that you will use the greedy algorithm for change-making.
The average number of coins per transaction can then be calculated as:
Applying this to the {1, 5, 10, 25} set of US coin denominations gives an average of 4.7 coins per transaction (2 pennies + 0.4 nickel + 0.8 dime + 1.5 quarters).
What's the optimum?
Trivally, 1.0. Have 99 different denominations of coins, from 1¢ to 99¢. However, this would make cash registers quite unwieldy. So, a better question would be, what's the optimum given a constraint on the number of coin denominations in circulation?
With 1 denomination
In order to be able to make any amount 1¢ or higher, the smallest coin has to be 1¢.
With a penny-only denomination system, the average number of coins per transaction is 49.5. Obviously not very efficient.
With 2 denominations
Find x such that
Of these, we would probably prefer to use 10¢ coins rather than 11¢ coins, for ease of arithmetic.
With 3 denominations
Two combinations of denominations give the minimum of 5.26 coins per transaction:
Constrained to factors of 100
If you're willing to tolerate the inefficiency of 5.5 coins instead of 5.26, you could instead have one of the following:
With 4 denominations
Our {1, 5, 10, 25} system with an average of 4.7 coins per transaction is, in fact, not optimum. We could instead use one of the following sets of denominations with an average of only 4.1 coins per transaction:
Constrained to factors of 100
Unfortunately, the above systems make it hard to make change for a dollar. Instead of a nice easy 2 half-dollars, 4 quarters, or 5 20-cent coins, you'd have to break a dollar into 37 + 37 + 11 + 11 + 3 + 1 or 38 + 38 + 11 + 11 + 1 + 1.
An alternative with an average of 4.6 coins per transaction (slightly better than the status quo) would be to have a {1, 4, 10, 25} system (i.e., replace the nickel with a 4¢ piece).
With 5 denominations
An average of 3.46 coins per transaction can be obtained with any of the combinations:
Constrained to factors of 100
An average of 3.76 coins per transaction can be obtained with the set {1, 4, 10, 25, 50}.
With 6 denominations
An average of 3.13 coins per transaction can be obtained with any of:
Constrained to factors of 100
An average of 3.36 coins per transaction can be obtained with the set {1, 2, 4, 10, 25, 50}.
The Euro cent denominations of {1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50} just barely misses optimality, with 3.4 coins per transaction.
In general
A set of denominations is "optimal" if it makes the ratios between consecutive denominations as equal as possible. For example, the {1, 5, 22} set has the ratios 5¢/1¢ = 5, 22¢/5¢ = 4.4, and $1/22¢ = 4.545454... This can be seen as an integer approximation to {1, 100^(1/3), 100^(2/3)} = {1, 4.641588833612778, 21.544346900318832}.
Real-life currencies sacrifice "optimality" in order to make the denominations nice round numbers in base ten. Effectively, this constrains ratios between denominations to the set {2, 2.5, 4, 5}.
The set of US coin denominations are suboptimal because of uneven spacing: In particular, there's a ratio of 5 between the penny and the nickel, but only 2 between the nickel and the dime.
Open Questions
The analysis above assume a uniform distribution of the dimes+cents digits of prices. But this wouldn't work for larger denominations: I'm far more likely to spend a fiver than a Ben. Would an exponential distribution work better?
Non-decimal currency
Did Jefferson make a mistake when he argued for 100 cents in a dollar? Would it have been "better" better to use the old British £sd system with 240 pence to a pound? Adopt base-twelve system with 144 pennies to a dollar? Or stuck with the historical binary divisions (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc.) of a dollar, like the NYSE did until 2001?
One nice property about our currency is that it possesses optimal substructure with regard to making change. That is, if you want to give someone, say, $0.57 using the fewest coins, you can do so by always giving the largest possible coin at each step. In this example, two quarters, a nickel, and two dimes.
Not all denominations have this property. For example, suppose our coins were only four-cents and five-cents. It is possible to make $0.08, but the greedy algorithm of "always give the largest coin" would mislead you.
Let $\mathcal{B} := \{1,5,10,20,50,100,1000\}$ be a set of bills. For every positive integer $n$ there exists a positive integer $m$ and bills $b_1, b_2, \dots, b_m \in \mathcal{B}$ such that
$$b_1 + b_2 + \dots + b_m = n$$
Of course, in general such a "decomposition" will not be unique. For example, if $n = 10$, we have three admissible decompositions:
If there are several admissible decompositions, one can start talking about the optimal one. If your goal is to minimize the number of bills you hand to the cashier, then you choose the decomposition with $m = 1$ and pay a 10 dollar bill with one 10 dollar bill.
What you can do is invent several sets of bills, and then compute the average length of the decomposition when $n \in \{1,2,\dots,100\}$. Find out which set of bills yields the least average length.


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This is homework from my number theory course.
Since $(x+1)^3-x^3=3x^2+3x+1$ and $x^3-(x+1)^3=-3x^2-3x-1$, to say that the difference of two cubes is divisible by 5 is the same as saying that $3x^2+3x+1\equiv 0\mod 5$ or $-3x^2-3x-1\equiv 0\mod 5$. Both of these statements imply that $x(x+1)\equiv 3\mod 5$. Thus I can finish this by showing that there are no such integers which satisfy $x(x+1)\equiv 3\mod 5$.
I want to say that it is sufficient to check by hand for the values 0,1,2,3, and 4 (for which it is not true), but other than following this by a messy induction I was wondering if there is an easier way to show that there are no integers such that $x(x+1)\equiv 3\mod 5$?


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This should work even if the output format changes.
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Avoids creating useless directory entries in archive, and sorts files by (roughly) extension, which is likely to group similar files together for better compression. 1%-5% improvement.
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no fancy grep stuff here.
Uses the dumb terminal option in gnuplot to plot a graph of frequencies. In this case, we are looking at a frequency analysis of words in all of the .c files.
handles file names with spaces and colons, fixes sort (numeric!), uses mplayer, same output format as other alternatives
Similar but using mediainfo instead of totem-something
Sort .avi movies by time length, print the longest first, and so on...
Since coreutils 7.6 provides sort -h
You'll run into trouble if you have files w/ missing newlines at the end. I tried to use
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Figures out total line contribution per author for an entire GIT repo. Includes binary files, which kind of mess up the true count.
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While attending Italian language training at the Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, Calif., from which she graduated as the distinguished graduate of her class, and winner of the Italian Consul General in San Francisco Book Award, she met a young First Lieutenant named Tom Costello. Their friendship grew into something stronger when they were stationed in Italy, and she became his wife on July 23, 1977. Their married life in the Army took them to a variety of posts in the U.S., in Louisiana, Illinois, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, and Washington, DC. They also served with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Damascus, Syria, and Nahariya, Israel, and at the U. S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain. After Tom's retirement in 2002, they moved to the Kansas City area, where they established their home in Lansing, Kan.
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Come to the Wexner Center on Thursday, August 18, to save with special discounts in the Wexner Center Store, café and on an astonishing documentary film, Antonio Gaudí, about the famed architect from Barcelona, at 7 PM. You'll be able to see the film for the Wexner Center Member price of just $5. Be sure to bring your Buck-ID.
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Other attractions today include fresh treats at the Market at 15th & High (3:30 to 6:30 PM) and the enchanting excitement of Howl's Moving Castle, screened outdoors (and free!) Wex Drive-In style, starting at dusk (or at 9 PM in Mershon Auditorium if it rains).


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Total thyroidectomy - discharge; Partial thyroidectomy - discharge; Thyroidectomy - discharge; Subtotal thyroidectomy - discharge
You had surgery to remove part or all of your thyroid gland. You probably spent 1 to 3 days in the hospital.
A speech pathologist may have shown you exercises to make your vocal cords stronger. A dietitian may have helped you plan meals for the first few days after your surgery.
You may have a drain attached to a bulb coming from your incision.
You may have some pain and soreness in your neck at first, especially when you swallow. Your voice may be a little hoarse for the first week. You will probably be able to start your everyday activities in just a few weeks.
If you had thyroid cancer, you may need to have radioactive iodine treatment soon.
Get plenty of rest when you get home. Keep your head raised while you are sleeping for the first week.
Your doctor may have prescribed a narcotic pain medicine. You may take over-the-counter pain medicine, such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) or acetaminophen (Tylenol). Take all of your pain medicines the way your doctor or nurse told you to.
Try taking your pain medicine 30 minutes before a meal to ease the pain of swallowing.
You may put a cold compress on your surgical cut for 20 minutes at a time to ease pain. Do not put the ice directly on your skin. Make sure it is wrapped in a towel. Keep the area dry.
Take good care of your drain (if you have one) and dressings (bandages).
You may be taking antibiotics to prevent infection. Make sure you take all of the medicine the way your doctor or nurse told you.
For the first few days, you will need to eat only liquids and soft foods. Pudding, Jell-O, mashed potatoes, smooth apple sauce, and liquids at room temperature are good choices.
Pain medicines can cause constipation. Eating high-fiber foods and drinking 8 to 10 glasses of water a day will help make your stools softer.
You may slowly start adding your regular foods to your diet. Your doctor may suggest you see a dietitian to help you with your meals.
Give yourself time to heal. For about a week, do not do any strenuous activities, heavy lifting, jogging, or swimming.
Slowly start your normal activities when you feel ready. Do not drive if you are taking narcotic pain medicines.
Cover your incision with clothing or very strong sunscreen when you are in the sun for the first year after surgery. This will make your scar show less.
You may need to take thyroid hormone medicine for the rest of your life to replace your natural thyroid hormone.
You may not need hormone replacement if only part of your thyroid was removed.
See your doctor for regular blood tests and to go over your symptoms. Your doctor will change the dosage of your hormone medicine based on your blood tests and symptoms.
You may not start thyroid hormone replacement right away, especially if you had thyroid cancer.
You will probably see your surgeon every 2 to 4 weeks while you are healing. If you have stitches or a drain, your surgeon will remove them at these visits.
You may need long-term care from an endocrinologist for regular blood tests. An endocrinologist is a doctor who diagnosis and treats problems with glands and hormones.
Call your doctor or nurse if you have:
Smith PW, Salomone LJ, Hanks JB. Thyroid. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 38.
Lai SY, Mandel SJ, Weber RS. Management of thyroid neoplasms. In: Flint PW, Haughey BH, Lund VJ, et al., eds. Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2010:chap 124.


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A Lamborghini for the Tall Driver in a Huge Hurry
THE HINDUS CALL IT darshan, the blessing one receives by being in the presence of a great person. Say what you want about Lamborghini—of all exotic-car brands, the one that most flirts with the ridiculous—its cars are remarkable and noble machines, and taking the latest-greatest out for a go at a superspeedway on a sunny day makes one feel pretty good inside, I must say.
What's Sanskrit for "free tires"?
The big girl you see here is the Aventador LP 700-4 Roadster, a designation that will itself bring connoisseurs up short. "Roadster" is supposed to connote a pared-down, essential open-top car (strictly, not even fixed windows). The Aventador Roadster is, of course, a spaceship with a removable top: two seats, carbon-composite construction, scissor doors; midengine, 691-horsepower V12 layout; seven-speed single-clutch transmission; Haldex center-diff all-wheel drive with rear-axle torque vectoring; and, twirling gaily in the wheel wells, dumbfounding foot-wides, the finest custom tires God and Pirelli know how to make.
The front third of the Roadster is identical to the coupe's, which is to say, chiseled like a Klingon's forehead. With the roof panels in place, the roofline is also identical; however, because of shallow interior recesses in these panels (the first application of Lambo's forged-composite technology), headroom is increased about an inch over the coupe. Johnny Longtorsos may want to pony up the extra $44,100.
'Flip the switch to 'race' and you've got hold of a fully ornery car.'
The back third is where the drama is: The roof buttresses surge rearward in sprays of geometric tension. Between the buttresses, the engine cover comprises two long hexagonal openings filled with overlapping glass polygons, like transparent dragon scales. Visible underneath is the ligature of the car's pushrod rear suspension, the carbon monocoque's X-bracing and, of course, the induction plumbing and cam covers of the naturally aspirated, 6.5-liter, port-injected, 48-valve mega motor. That's it. I'm quitting the papacy to spend more time with my car.
2013 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster
Price as tested: $450,000 (est.)
Powertrain: Naturally aspirated, midmounted, port-injected 6.5-liter DOHC, 48-valve, 60-degree V12 with variable valve timing, induction and exhaust; seven-speed single-clutch automated manual; full-time all-wheel drive with Haldex center differential, open front differential, and limited-slip rear differential with torque vectoring
Horsepower/torque: 691 hp at 8,250 rpm/509 pound-feet at 5,500 rpm
Length/weight: 188.2 inches/3,900 pounds (est.)
Wheelbase: 106.3 inches
0-60 mph: <3 seconds
Top speed: 217 mph
EPA fuel economy: 10/16, city/highway
Cargo capacity: 5 cubic feet (est.)
An open-top Aventador was always in the product plan, which means the company's engineers—led by the ultimate Italian car guy, technical director Maurizio Reggiani—had plenty of time to perfect the top mechanism. Which they didn't. Actually, it's a fairly clumsy system requiring you to fiddle the panels into place and latch them blindly while standing outside the car. To store the top, you simply snug the two panels into rubberized sockets in the boot in the front of the car, abandoning whatever luggage you have on the side of the road.
The Aventador's targa top at least has the virtue of continuing Lambo's line of fumbling, maddening tops on its big mid-12s (Diablo, Murcielago). It's tradizione. Que sera.
Like the coupe, the Aventador Roadster posts some respectable hypercar numbers: 0-60 miles per hour under 3 seconds; 186 mph in 24 seconds; a 217-mph top speed. Those towering numbers don't really do justice to the overall balance, the bandwidth of this car: With the dynamics switch set to "Strada," or "street," the Aventador Roadster is distinctly calm, even seemingly sedated, with lax throttle, transmission, suspension and steering responses. The Aventador Roadster has a fuel-saving stop-start system, as well as cylinder deactivation for periods of light load, which gains the car a full 1 mph better highway fuel economy (city mileage is status quo). As weird as it may sound—and setting aside the fact that the Aventador will grind its luxuriant nose across just about any curb cut or speed bump—this car could be comfortably driven every day.
Put the big switch to "Corsa," or "race," and whatever flex and elasticity was built into car evaporates. Now you've got hold of a fully ornery car, with 509 pound-feet or torque at 5,500 rpm and peak horsepower arriving at 8,250 rpm. A clamor onstage. Alarums. Between the stability programming and the adroit all-wheel-drive system, the car is nearly impossible to get wrong. Forget about accelerating at the apex of a corner. In this car you go back to the throttle as soon as you see the apex. The computers cipher the maximum torque allowable at each wheel, given steering angle, grip and other variables, and put it the hell down. Ker-pow.
Not untypically, the roadster version puts on a little weight versus the coupe: 110 pounds (curb weight around 3,900 pounds), which represents the additional chassis reinforcement to compensate for the loss of the load-bearing hardtop, as well as the weight of spring-loaded B-pillar supports, which pop up should the car detect a risk of rollover. The Roadster is also fitted with a small, powered rear window—a backlight—which can be lowered to admit more air circulation and more, oh, let's call it aural intensity.
The Aventador needed more excitement like John Brown needed more beard. Still, now that it's here, I can hardly go back to the coupe. I mean, look at all the headroom.
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Spyker's Back in the Hunt
The Dutch car maker rebounds from Saab with a new sports car
EXOTIC-SPORTS-CAR entrepreneurs are the world's most optimistic accountants: Enzo Ferrari, Carroll Shelby, Aston Martin's David Brown. Spyker Cars Chief Executive Victor Muller attempted to swoop in and keep Saab going, eventually with Chinese help, after General Motors GM 1.77 % dumped it, but the effort ended in 2011 with the Dutch company about €160 million ($210 million) in the red.
In 2012, Mr. Muller said in a recent interview, the company restructured its debt and cut deals with suppliers, bringing the company a €125 million net profit that moved it slightly into "positive equity territory," even though production of the company's singular C8 Aileron sports car almost ground to a halt. These are rather magic beans. Nonetheless, armed with a €10 million stake from Chinese heavy-vehicle maker Youngman—which was also party to the Saab deal—Spyker Cars is staged for its "resurgence": the world premiere of the B6 Venator Concept at the Geneva Motor Show, Tuesday.
Venator is Latin for "hunter." Mr. Muller explained that in World War I, the Dutch called fighter planes "hunters" (the historic Spyker company built strut-and-canvas warplanes and grand touring cars). The B6 Venator, in brief: midengine, 375-horsepower V6; six-speed automatic transmission; aluminum chassis, carbon-fiber body; under 3,080 pounds. That's a weight-to-power ratio of 8.21 pounds per horsepower (a little better than the Porsche 911 Carrera's) in a footprint the size of a Porsche Boxster. But "anybody who says they're going to build a Porsche killer is crazy," Mr. Muller emphasized.
The Venator also bears a striking resemblance, in profile and in specification, to the Toyota-powered Lotus Evora S, though Mr. Muller declined to specify his powertrain supplier. Mr. Muller says he played the role of designer, and the Venator, he promises, will have all the piquant details of Spyker's previous cars, an aesthetic evoking an era of silk scarves and aerial chivalry: the machine-turned aluminum dash; the exposed gearshift mechanism; the rich, quilted leather. The italicized script logo on the Venator's grille is a reproduction of the company's 1903 logo.
The B6 Venator will be priced at €125,000 in Europe and $150,000 in the U.S., said Mr. Muller. He anticipates production numbers "in the hundreds."
Meanwhile, Spyker and Youngman have signed a joint-venture agreement to develop Spyker's P2P, the Peking-to-Paris super-sport-utility vehicle first seen at the 2006 Geneva show. And Spyker and Youngman will form a new company called Spyker Phoenix to build a premium vehicle based on Saab's Phoenix platform.
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The Spyker B6 Venator will be priced at €125,000 in Europe and $150,000 in the U.S. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said it would be priced between €125,000 and €150,000.


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The 7 Most Incredible Crime Sprees Carried Out by Animals
What's the worst thing you've ever done? Ever organized a riot, caused a blackout or intentionally tipped over a boat with people in it? If you said no, you have nothing on these animals.
(And if you said yes, you should probably turn yourself in, dude.)
#7. The Vervet Monkeys and Their Alcoholic Tendencies
The vervet monkeys of the island of St. Kitts developed a fondness for alcohol soon after being brought there by rum industry slave traders, 300 years ago. After escaping captivity, the monkeys started feeding from the fermented sugar cane left in the field, which meant that the traders' plan to train them into rum-serving butlers had backfired horribly.
These days, however, they get their free alcohol fix from a different source:
Tourists. You literally cannot turn your back on St. Kitts without a monkey sneaking up and stealing your drink. And if you don't have a drink, they will give you one just so they can take it. There are a variety of methods employed by the monkeys in swiping drinks, from the nervous grab and run:
... to the brilliant "knock it over and lick up what's left" tactic:
"Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!"
... to the confident "drink it at the table" method:
"Fuck it."
... and our favorite, the old "steal from a friend who has done all the hard work" technique:
He could also be helping him puke.
Of course, at the end of the day they have to suffer the consequences:
#6. Mr. Asbo: The Swan With Anger-Management Issues
Despite being a beautiful, innocent-looking swan, this is actually one of the angriest, most vicious birds ever -- presumably the result of all the taunting he received as a fuck-ugly little duckling.
Staking his claim over an entire area of river he lived on (which can be found in Cambridge, in the UK), the swan proceeded to beat the ever-loving shit out of anything and anyone that dared try to share his water.
"Haha, I'm being attacked by a swan."
The local residents gave him the cute nickname of Mr. Asbo, which in the UK stands for anti-social behavior order. In the U.S. they'd just call him Mr. Let's-Get-The-Fuck-Away-From-Here-Right-Now. Mr. Asbo seems to be particularly annoyed by boats ... so it's a little unfortunate that he happens to live in a city renowned for its participation in the yearly University Boat Race. Despite the local authorities' official warning about the swan's violent behavior, rowers continued to frequent the lake and continued to be beaten up by Mr. Asbo.
The swan has tipped over entire boats before proceeding to mercilessly attack the submerged victim with his beak. And when he can't do that, he's happy to skip straight to the "mercilessly attacking someone with his beak" stage of his terror campaign, sometimes even standing on top of the vessel to increase the intimidation factor. He even learned to attack the most vulnerable part of the boat -- yes, this swan officially knows more about boating than most humans.
One rower called him "a vicious beast" and added: "I don't go past it if I am alone. ... I'm too scared". In Cambridge, the slightest quacking sound is enough to cause uncontrollable fits of panic among the population.
Dun dun, dun dun, dun dun!
Turns out that Mr. Asbo was just misunderstood, though: A bird whisperer claims to have cured him of his anti-social behavior by uncovering its psychological roots. She also said, "When I was communicating telepathically first of all he portrayed a feeling of fear and being quite angry with humans." That's right. Telepathically.
Inside this woman's head, all you hear is angry quacking.
Because she is a goddamn quack.
#5. Oscar the Fetishist Kleptomaniac Cat
Oscar, a cat in Southampton in the UK, began his life of crime at an early age stealing unimportant items that were unlikely to be missed -- a random sock, a garden glove, a late-period Picasso. But as he progressed into adulthood, his tastes became more refined. He now specializes almost exclusively in lingerie.
It's hard to kick that garden glove habit altogether, though.
Developing a penchant for girls underwear, Oscar began prowling the washing lines of unsuspecting students living in his area, bringing home all sorts of unmentionables. According to his owners, on a good day he can bring back 10 items. Oddly enough, they appear more impressed than alarmed by Oscar's problem, remarking on the lengths their cat goes through to bring them "presents." "We can't give him back now as he makes such an effort with all these gifts. He's got a lovely personality and is a very loving cat," said Birgitt Weismantel, 56, who has also adopted a paranoid-schizophrenic iguana and the guy who shot Ronald Reagan.
And a man-rat who sells crystal meth.
Oscar's owners did have the decency to at least phone police and neighbors and let them know it wasn't some perverted guy stealing their undies; it was only a perverted cat who may or may not be masturbating to them.
#4. Barney the Foul-Mouthed Parrot
Barney is a macaw living in the Nuneaton Wildlife Sanctuary, in the UK. When Barney arrived there at the tender age of two, they noticed he had already acquired a large vocabulary from his previous owner ... and it consisted entirely of nasty fuck words. Since we have no idea who the previous owner was, we're going to go ahead and tell you it was Gordon Ramsey.
"F***ing macaw. Why can't you be a proper parrot?"
But anyone can drop a few F-bombs and think he's being clever. It's all about context, and Barney knows this well. That's why one time, during a visit from the local mayor, Barney looked her in the eye and told her she could "fuck off." He then turned to a vicar and a couple of policemen who happened to be standing by (apparently they were shooting a Benny Hill sketch there) and proclaimed, "You can fuck off too, wanker." No, really.
Barney and his current watcher, Mr. Grewcock. No really.
Barney is already sounding like our hero, but his exploits didn't stop there -- or even with him. When two African Grey parrots moved into his cage, Barney took it upon himself to teach them his favorite words: "fuck," "bollocks" and "twat."
"No, no, it's 'knob jockey.' The 'K' is silent. Repeat after me ..."


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The 6 Most Disastrous Attempts at Internet Damage Control
They call it the Streisand effect, and it happens any time people try to suppress Internet criticism, then see it blow up hilariously in their faces.
As these companies can tell you, sometimes it's better to just let it go.
#6. Suing to Make Science Stop Being Right All the Time
Chiropractors belong to a medical discipline that may or may not actually do anything to heal people. Despite some evidence that there's value in what chiropractors do, many people think they're full of shit, and they aren't afraid to voice this opinion. One such man, Simon Singh, decided to tell the chiropractic community just exactly what he thought of it in an article blasting the entire profession.
He was probably just jealous.
More specifically, he targeted chiropractors' claims that their services could help children with asthma or colic, and of course they were making a fortune off these claims. Responding like the scientific professionals they are, the chiropractic community sued this man for libel and took him to court.
The Backfire:
Most anywhere in the civilized world, you're within your rights to criticize a profession as long as you don't wave your penis at people while doing it. When the courts began to investigate Singh and found that his accusers didn't really have any sort of a case, they turned their attention back to the chiropractors.
"Oh yeah, this'll cure the shit out of your AIDS."
The Fallout:
What began as the opinion of one man soon became the interest of the British government, as it began to discover that a lot of chiropractors were indeed not helping anyone but themselves. As a result, about 1 in 4 chiropractors in the UK are now under investigation by regulators for making bullshit claims.
As for the unfortunate Mr. Singh, he had to pay over 200,000 pounds ($311,000) in court fees, almost lost his job, and has been relentlessly badgered by the chiropractic community. But in the end, he did win his court case, and as a final dick-punch to the chiropractors, the judge ended the ordeal by stating that what was originally Singh's opinion should now be considered fact in light of the new evidence uncovered.
Adjust this.
#5. You're Fired, Facebook-Using Teenager!
Teenager Kimberley Swann started a job one day at Ivell Marketing & Logistics as an office administrator. Since she was only 16 and at the bottom of the ladder, where all people her age are kept so they don't break anything, her day was filled with such fun tasks as hole-punching and shredding documents. Like many teenagers, she was both an avid Facebook user and a huge fan of smileys, so after a few hours of the rip-roaring fun that was Ivell Marketing & Logistics, she updated her status to: "first day at work. omg (oh my God)!! So dull!!"
This obvious attempt at slander toward her employer didn't go unnoticed; the boss of Ivell Marketing & Logistics was monitoring the profile of this 16 year old girl very closely. Two days later, she struck again with the frankly disgusting "all i do is shred holepunch n scan paper!!! omg!" Did this girl know no boundaries? Again she was being very closely watched but apparently had just one more chance. Two weeks later she made the final mistake of posting the damning "I'm so totally bord!"
Finally the boss of Ivell Marketing & Logistics had had enough of these constant, personal, and publicly viewable attacks on his fine company and called Kimberly into his office. She was fired on the spot for her slanderous posts about the company and escorted swiftly from the premises.
After being Tased.
The Backfire:
Kimberly didn't actually mention the company by name in any of these posts, so how then did we know it was Ivell Marketing & Logistics that fired her? Oh, right: Because she went to the papers the moment she was fired, and they kicked up a shit storm.
The sticky wicket gets the maramalade.
The Fallout:
Let's review. In order for the company to look bad because of her Facebook posts, someone would have to go through the effort of adding this girl as a friend, scrolling down to look at her previous posts, cross-referencing them with her job history and then deciphering what the hell she actually meant. Now Ivell looks bad to anyone who tries to Google the company. You know, like everyone does before using any company, ever.
Hell, just take a look at what images Google associates with Ivell Marketing & Logistics:
Indeed it does.
And of course, the face of the young innocent girl put out of a job for having a social life is right at the top of the list, complete with a link to the story.
Can you see the pure hate in her eyes? Ivell Marketing can.
Still, they got off easier than Horizon Realty...
#4. Horizon Realty Multiplies Bad Publicity by 100,000
One of the most valuable services the Internet provides is a place to vent our frustrations without doing something that might win us a one-way ticket to the county lockdown. So when a woman named Amanda Bonnen felt the need to vent on Twitter about the state of her apartment and the exact amount of ass that it sucked, she was doing exactly the kind of thing Twitter was designed for -- thinking out loud in public in order to make ourselves feel better. Her tweet:
"Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon Realty thinks it's okay."
Incoming: A whale of a fail.
Now obviously, as soon as the tweet was posted every Internet user received an e-mail, and a brick was thrown through their windows alerting them to the fact this young woman had tweeted.
Oh, wait, that's not how the Internet works. Actually, it was going to be seen only by Bonnen's 20 followers, which is half of what most grandmas have. And maybe three of them would take time to think, "Awww, she's having a bad day," before completely forgetting about it. No one with any grasp of how the Internet works could possibly be stupid enough to assume this was a damaging attack on the company.
The Backfire:
Horizon Realty, which was in a legal dispute with Bonnen over her living situation, disagreed. The company saw the tweet and called in the lawyers. That'll do it!
Lawyers make everything better!
Well, actually, in the resulting furor the tweet ended up being re-tweeted by hundreds of Twitter users. Then the news picked up the story. After everything was taken into account, it's estimated that the original tweet -- and criticism of Horizon's property maintenance -- was seen by over 2 million people.
Roughly the population of New Mexico.
The Fallout:
The legal case against Bonnen was thrown out of court for being too vague, or in other words, the judge told Horizon to stop wasting his time so he could prosecute real criminals. The company was also made to look like complete dicks (the worst kind) and had pretty much eliminated anyone with access to Google from ever using the company. As a final kick in the neck, they never saw a penny of the $50,000 in damages they claimed, and since lawyers don't come cheap, you can be sure they lost money from this court case.
As for Bonnen, it would be nice to assume that her mold problem got fixed but unfortunately her whereabouts are unknown and her Twitter page doesn't exist anymore. Maybe she got tired of the publicity, or more likely, she did what most people do and forgot that Twitter was even a thing.
Or maybe Horizon dropped a shark on her.