Comments by "Digital Footballer" (@digitalfootballer9032) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. Nothing can equal infinity, because infinity is not a number, but a concept. You can approach infinity, but you can't reach it because it isn't a real number.
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  2. I would like room upside down twodie two and a twoth.
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  3. So a left handed person does all or most things left handed, a right handed person with the right, and an ambidextrous person can do all or most things with either hand. But what are you if you more or less split tasks down the middle between hands, and don't do any with both? For example, write with one, and throw with the other, swing a bat with one, and swing a golf club or hockey stick with the other? Is there a name for that? I have known several people like that including my wife. She calls herself a lefty because she writes with her left, but does alot of other things right handed.
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  4. Poe was one of my favorites in school. And I was not a big fan of English literature class in general. But Poe was great. So was Twain, Vonnegut, and Orwell. Anyone who challenges your mind with cleverly hidden meanings.
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  5. The electoral college is always an interesting issue of debate. The 2016 election heated that debate up more than ever. Clinton accumulated more popular vote, but Trump won, mainly by turning several "safe" blue states red by small margins. Some call it a travesty of the election system, others argue that the electoral college did exactly what it was designed to do. Regardless of what position you take, and what candidate you favored, you must take one thing into account in this election, and every other Presidential election. The candidates campaigned according to this system. Had the race been a purely popular vote race, the campaigns, and quite possibly the outcomes, would have been much different. Take California and Texas for example...the two biggest prizes, and two very safe states for their respective parties. How many Republicans in California, and Democrats in Texas didn't bother to vote because they knew their candidate had no chance of winning the state? We obviously could never know. Not necessarily an argument in favor of the electoral college, but an explanation of why candidates run their campaigns completely differently because of it. Also consider the amount of effort spent in small swing States like Iowa and New Hampshire that would likely be ignored in a popular vote system. An argument in favor of the electoral college is that these states become more important. Another argument for it is that while certainly large states are still worth more electoral points, the fact that one candidate can blow out the other in a few large states and still lose overall by losing narrowly in a greater number of smaller states is an interesting phenomenon, and is exactly what happened in 2016.
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  6. Thank nobody I am a god.
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  7. "What is at the center of the universe?" The Kardashians.
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  8. It doesn't matter how many coins there are. Same probability with one coin. First flip, both people have 50% probability of getting heads. Second flip, whether the same coin or different coin, again 50% probability of getting the desired result. Where the twist comes is if both players on the second flip do not get the desired result. Then the advantage goes to the heads-tails player over the heads-heads player. Why? Because the desired results are P1 H-H and P2 H-T, right? First flip, both get heads, results logged. Okay, second flip, P1 gets tails, and P2 gets heads, the reverse of their desired result, again results are logged. P2 is still 1 flip away from victory. He got H-H but wanted H-T. You are still playing off a prior flip of H. You just need a T. 50% shot. P1 wanted got H-T, but wanted H-H. His prior flip was a T. He needs a minimum of two flips to get H-H, or 50% odds times 50% odds again = 25%. The number of coins is irrelevant.
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  9. Here's another penny's worth of information for free. What us Americans call "flashlights" (British "torch") got their name because of early batteries. In the late 19th century, cops carried flashlights on their beat at night. Since batteries back then did not last long, the officers would simply "flash" the light into dark alleys on patrol to save on the battery. Hence the name flash-light. They were also very large and cumbersome devices in those days.
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  10. I think you can love a nonhuman entity like a pet, but your feelings towards an intimate object is affection.
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  11. Almost everyone I know who is left handed does most common things left handed like writing, but everything else about a quarter to half of things right handed. Like my wife, she writes and uses utensils with the left, and golfs left handed, but throws right handed, swings a bat right handed, shoots a gun right handed, and uses scissors and other tools right handed. Most right handed people seem to do most everything right handed. I do everything right handed except I shoot hockey left handed, and I throw horsehoes and bowl right handed but lead with my right foot like a lefty. Weird.
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  12. It made perfect sense to me before the complex explanation. Yes, both need heads on the first flip. Your odds are equal there. But it's that second flip. Whenever you need two of the same result in a row, a failure always sends you back to the beginning. Like say I have to win a card game two times in a row. I win game one and lose game two. I have to start all over and win again to have a chance at stringing two wins together. If I need to win one, then lose the next, by winning two in a row I am still only one game away, because at any point, no matter how many you win in a row, as soon as you lose you have a win directly followed by a loss. Getting the same result twice in a row for anything is always going to be a lower probability than two different results, because of having to start the whole process over every time you don't get two of the same results in a row.
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  13. Dylan Graves, if those other places are so much better, then why don't you move there? That's the first step in Making America Great Again... getting rid of twats like you.
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  14. Climate change is an interesting subject. It's pretty hard to ignore that global temperatures have been higher than normal now the last few decades. Where the argument arises is the reason for it. Is it man made, or natural cycles at work? And then that argument just gets muddied by the politics behind all of it.
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  15. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
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  16. "The world doesn't care about your politics". Tell that to the CBC and the BBC...they are both obsessed with American politics.
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  17. Your views sound pretty similar to mine, and I too was in once hard to the right on everything. I now consider myself a libertarian with conservative leanings.
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  18. I am religious and I don't believe that. In fact, there are many theologians who don't believe that either. Belief in a higher power and belief in life on other planets is not mutually exclusive. In fact, if you believe in a higher power, and that higher power created intelligent life, you have to believe that it would have been a massive waste of time to create something as huge as the universe and only create life on one tiny rock.
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  19. There is a pretty good tv show on the subject called "Life After People".
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  20. To simplify this even further, any time you need the same result twice in a row it will be less probable. This is magnified with a sample size of two (heads and tails). The first flip is always a 50% shot for both players. So is the second flip. But when you fail on the second flip is where it changes. P1 needs H-H, P2 needs H-T. Let's say both get H on flip 1. Then say both fail flip 2...P1 gets T, P2 gets H. P2 is still only one flip away from H-T, because their last flip was an H. P1 must get H-H. Their prior flip was a T, so they need a minimum of two flips to get H-H, which the probability is now at 25% to P2's 50%.
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  21. I believe in a square earth. It's where Blocko lives. Wait, wrong channel.
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  22. People like you turn away people like me who might actually consider a suggestion like in this video. What a narcissist you are. You think you are high and mighty because of your choices in diet and how you perceive it as being "better for the environment". Well good for you. Way to pat yourself on the back...we are all real impressed.
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  23. That was sarcasm...I hope...
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  24. I'd be more likely to do the coin flip in the first round because I would be playing with house money. In the second round, it's my own money, so I would cut my potential losses and not do the coin flip.
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  25. I like your videos because they make you think about things without blatantly expressing a political view. That's refreshing these days.
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  26. Good advice...unless you are talking about someone who either loves or hates Trump. There is no changing the minds of either!
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  27. Well I can't play a piano, either.
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  28. I'm terrible at chess and I know it. But I'm pretty awesome at everything else 😁
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  29. Anyone remember the tests that told you your optimal career? Probably only the 35+ crowd, I think they did away with them sometime in the 1990's. I took mine in 1989 when I was 12. Half the people in my class got "farmer". No joke.
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  30. Car manufacturers are the worst with manipulating stats to their favor. Especially with trucks. "Biggest payload capacity in it's class!". That's great, but then how does it rank in the other 5,000 features you can rank it on?
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  31. I knew this conversation would eventually break down into ad hominem attacks. Next everyone needs to start calling each other Nazis... that's usually the next step.
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  32. 🥒
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  33. The world is more than just "left and right". There are countless people that are a combination of both. When it comes to people and experiences, I tend to like diversity and trying new things. When it comes to economics and government, I tend to favor the "tried and true" theory. I guess that makes me a libertarian.
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  34. Want a good argument for the electoral system? The New York state gubernatorial race. New York City basically elects the governor of the state. The rest of the state might as well stuff coloring books in the ballot boxes. Now one may argue that NYC has the most population, so it's only fair. But on the other hand, they are mostly a monolithic voting Bloc (outside of Staten Island), with different priorities than the rest of the state. There is no diversity of ideas. Urban, suburban, and rural voters all have different needs. And even so, different localities have different needs. An urban voter in say Buffalo or Syracuse might have different needs than someone in NYC. But when one city contains nearly half the population of a state, that city calls the shots. And candidates from either party tend to cater to their needs in order to get elected. The same would apply to the U.S. as a whole, though not quite as dramatically. Candidates would cater to the needs of the mega population centers, and mostly ignore the rest of the country in a strictly popular vote system. Yes, occasionally you will get your George Pataki (not that he was great, but he's a great example), who won by a narrow margin by dominating upstate ballots, but 90% of the time you will get basically what California wants in a national election, since they have about a fifth of the entire nation's population, a huge margin of the rest of the country would have to in a sense "band together" to defeat them.
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  35. I'd be interested to know your views on abortion. My guess is you are okay with it.
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  36. My wife is the same way. Writes and uses utensils left handed, but throws with her right. Oddly she golfs left handed, but swings a baseball bat right handed.
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  37. Pretty accurate depiction.
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  38. Maybe we can learn from them. Also, it is arguable that making alien contact would unite humanity in a way few other things could.
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  39. I disagree. You are talking about lust. You don't have to love someone to reproduce with them.
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  40. I'd be fascinated to hear your views on abortion.
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  41. Do you know how much the electoral policies of other countries matter? Zero.
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  42. I'm definitely a mind that has a body...I abuse my body all the time with alcohol, tobacco, and junk food...but enrich my mind with stuff like TedEd. Obviously my mind is calling the shots and just throws my body under the bus!
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