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		Symmetry on June 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocea... There's a big difference between telling someone they aren't going to win in the casino and telling them they have "zero chance" of winning. The later is false and is probably an ineffective argument because it's obviously false.

SketchySeaBeast on June 3, 2019 [–]

Yes, they should have said "roughly zero chance", which is true. They were just rounding down.

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