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Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023)

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399 points seanhunter | 4 comments | 19 Nov 24 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.716s | source
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swayvil ◴[19 Nov 24 14:50 UTC] No.42184011[source]▶
This is clearly the law of conservation of reality at work.

Likewise, when you hear a word for the first time suddenly you hear it five times in a row. Or if you see somebody once you suddenly start running into them all over the place.

It's because it's cheaper to repeat past realities than to create new ones.

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1. grraaaaahhh ◴[19 Nov 24 14:52 UTC] No.42184044[source]▶
Or how when you look for something it always ends up in the last place you look, if it weren't there would have been some number of places you looked that were completely unnecessary.
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3. brewdad ◴[19 Nov 24 16:18 UTC] No.42185112[source]▶
Personally, I like to keep looking for the thing long after I've found it simply to prove the adage wrong. My keys weren't in the last place I looked because I checked three more places after I had them in my hand.
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4. fluoridation ◴[19 Nov 24 17:44 UTC] No.42186161[source]▶
That's a dangerous game to play. What if you find the thing a second time?