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

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392 points seanhunter | 1 comments | 19 Nov 24 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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amoss ◴[19 Nov 24 19:37 UTC] No.42187255[source]▶
My heart goes out the cryptographers. All that code, written over decades, that assumes coin flips are 50:50. So much updating and rewriting to do. Quite a few algorithms that will need a rethink to remain fair.
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1. TheRealPomax ◴[19 Nov 24 22:35 UTC] No.42188820[source]▶
If your cryptographer's code is based on coin flips, you probably want to find a new cryptographer.