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How is dying not unfortunate? You have an exact 50/50 chance of making the next day. So a death is unfortunate, as you might as well have lived another day.



While making it to the next day may be binary, the odds of 0 coming up for the average healthy person is not 50%. Otherwise only 2% of children would live more than one week after being born.


Really? An EXACT 50/50 chance?!


Apparently everyone's life expectancy is 2 = 1/2 + 2/4 + ... + n/2^n + ... days.


Death of a Rock God is tragic.

Losing a glove is unfortunate.




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