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		neaanopri on Nov 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S. This is the fundamental problem with assigning probabilities to events that will only happen once. It doesn't make any sense!

throw_away_777 on Nov 9, 2016 [–]

Sometimes there are no definitive answers. The world we live in is not deterministic, at least with our current knowledge of the world.

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