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Re:Rainbow, Binary, Debt Friendship Bracelets by belovedeagle on Sunday October 18, 2015 @07:36PM (#10410313)
The point was that the walk isn't random, and that if it were unguided, the participants believed it would be unbounded.

Presumably it's easy to stay within $63 when the decisions are guided.

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Re:Rainbow, Binary, Debt Friendship Bracelets by roel_v on Monday October 19, 2015 @01:50AM (#10411328)
But how so isn't it random? The article doesn't say, unless I misunderstood.
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Re:Rainbow, Binary, Debt Friendship Bracelets by shaftway on Monday October 19, 2015 @01:57PM (#10414492)
Isn't it painfully obvious? They're discussing joint events, like dinner. Whoever owes money in the relationship pays.
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Re:Rainbow, Binary, Debt Friendship Bracelets by roel_v on Monday October 19, 2015 @08:27PM (#10416731)
I guess I'm daft, but if they'd just flip a coin each time on who pays, in the long run they'd each pay the same, if each payment event were to be random (let's even say within an upper limit, to keep the 'in the long run' within the lifespan of their relationship). Why wouldn't the dollar amounts of these events be essentially random?
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