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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

i'd more say the point is that you don't know if it's gonna be heads or tails, sure maybe one is 60% likely but unless you go out of your way to statistically analyze your flips it's still perfectly fine for randomly determining between two choices. where it doesn't matter which one you go with.