I've played enough X-COM to know that 50/50 is actually 100%, I just don't know which way. Better trigger it!!
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30%? Let me deliver that shot with crit across the map to your teammate hunkered down behind full cover for you!
sudo rm train.sh
problem solved 👍
Option 3 means that the Javascript standards team dies either way, right? Number 3. No hesitation.
the c++ team is a sacrifice I'm willing to make. can we just shoot Brendan Eich in the head if he's not in there too?
Push him onto the pressure pad. Make it his fault.
I feel like all C++ does these days is badly and very slowly copy other languages. It wouldn't be a huge loss.
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I'll take the 50/50 because those are some damn good odds!
those are the best odds i've had in years
-dr. mann
Well, you can take yourself out of the equation because you're not tied down and can just move after flipping the switch.
chooses bottom track
"C'mon...c'mon!"
trolley heads towards committe members
"Dammit!"
runs over and jumps on the nuclear bomb pressure pad
Joke's on you I hate myself and my family
why would you wanna kill the programming language commitees.
“You and your entire family” means “All life on Earth”.
That should make the decision somewhat easier.
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Ok so this one just isn't fair.
Two possibilities end up with me dead, two end up with millions dead, and one ends up with me being unemployed.
Sorry not sorry Team A and B, sacrifices must be made.
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Quickly move the switch while on track, then hope the paths willl be wide enough to stop the trolley.
Fuck the metro I guess.
Now how do I get it to drift over everything but teams a and b?
It'll hit the bomb, so teams a and b will be blasted either way :)
I assumed that the bomb would only kill 4.5 million people but all 8 billion are acceptable too, unless the teams a and b happen to be in the blast radius which seems unlikely. To me the area was only referencing the location of the bomb not the train.
there might be an argument that JavaScript kills more than a nuclear bomb
Am I also in range of the nuclear bomb, or am I safe? Unclear as the image doesn't specify if it is drawn to scale or not. Also which direction are the tracks currently pointing.
I think I’ll take my chances with the bomb
Which metropolitan area?
Assuming it is in the US, at 4.5 million it can only be San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley.
would the bomb also kill javascript and C++ or would I have to keep throwing trolleys at it until I get both silicon valley and the JS/C++ devs?
At that distance it also kills you, so it sounds like a good deal. No regrets.
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I like those odds
There is at least one user here in the superposition of being on two tracks at once.
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