"It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth." Fan of #crows, #StarTrek and the #Japanese language, among many other things. Currently posting one frog species per day. If I keep this up, I should be done in about 20 years. My toots are searchable.
@juergen_hubert@germany@folklore Aha, didn't realize that. Still, this person seems to be in a better position than the paupers to get food to them --that's why the "ghost" appeals to him, right?
First of all, I hope you picked an answer before you started coding. This is cheating ;)
Second, when you set amt, you don't take the amount out of the arr[y]. As in, you place a bet, but the money you bet appears out of thin air. arr[y] = arr[y] + amt*2 should not have the *2.
Also, 50 should be 51.
As luck would have it, I coded it myself (after guessing, and getting it terribly wrong). Here's the relevant fragment of my PowerShell code.
Hillary Clinton on Trump: "The world has been here before. People did not take the kind of threats that we saw in the 1930s as seriously as they should, including American journalists ... a determined demagogue unfortunately supported by members of his political party, people who care more about a future tax cut than the sanctity of the Constitution, are falling in line behind him. And I don't think the press has done enough."
@aaron.rupar "Remember me? I'm the person that failed to beat Trump. So obviously I'm the person you should listen to for advice on how to beat Trump."
Here's the building that Bram Stoker may have been thinking of when he mentioned the property called "Carfax" that Count Dracula wanted to buy in Purfleet, outside London. Look at it. Doesn't it just ooze mystery, gothic romance and vampirism? #dailydracula
Source: https://ianfarrington.wordpress.com/2021/11/08/draculas-purfleet/
Catching up on #dailydracula, this quote from the letter that Jonathan Harker's boss entrusted to Harker to give to Dracula: "He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his own way [...]" Talk about damning praise.
Also, the Count is a confirmed unibrow: "His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose."
It just occurred to me that in a Biden-Trump presidential debate, Biden can append the phrase "while you were still in diapers" to any achievement or accomplishment he mentions, and be right every time.
This was an actual 1911 court case in the Netherlands.
A man called Willem Markus catches the suspect, Johannes Beek, stealing city money. Markus reports Beek, who is fired. Beek bakes a cake full of rat poison (arsenic) and sends it to the Markus home. Markus doesn't eat it, but his wife does, and she dies.
Beek is tried for murder of the wife. Defense argues that Beek did not intend to kill the wife, only the husband. No intent means no murder; it's manslaughter at most.
@starlightradio Attempted murder is for when a) you intended to murder person X but b) X didn't die. Strictly speaking, Beek did not attempt to murder the wife.
And now the reveal: the lower court ruled that this was manslaughter only, but was overturned on appeal. The Hoge Raad (highest court) agreed with the appeals court, creating the legal concept of "conditional intent." Conditional intent means that by intending to murder person X, you accept the risk of causing the death of person Y, and that counts as causing death with (conditional) intent, i.e. murder.
