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On 01/09/2010 03:34 PM, comex wrote: On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: That's more an argument for further limiting awards based on the number of guesses submitted. On the other hand, contests in general may have run their course for a while; the FRC is getting plenty of non-Ag

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ais523 wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 06:22 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: >> ais523 wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:36 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: Guesses for Dec 28 - Jan 3: None, even with the deadline extended to Jan 6 due to the holiday. For completeness, the actual totals were 0

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comex wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: It was in my last voting message. I guess 7 proposals and 5 CFJs next week. Is this supposed to be a quote or a guess for this week? A guess. -coppro

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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > It was in my last voting message. > > I guess 7 proposals and 5 CFJs next week. Is this supposed to be a quote or a guess for this week? -- -c.

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Ed Murphy wrote: Cookie Jar Report Date of this report: Sat 28 Nov 09 Date of last report: Fri 13 Nov 09 (All times are UTC) Deadline for guesses is the end of Friday each week. Guesses for Nov 2-8 Proposals CFJs --- Tue 27 Oct 21:17

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Ed Murphy wrote: c. wrote: I intend, without three objections, to flip the contestmaster of Cookie Jar to none. I object. Why not submit guesses yourself? I object.

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Yally wrote: > I guess 5 proposals and 2 CFJs for next week. Ineffective, guesses must be submitted by the end of Friday.

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Aaron Goldfein wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: Aaron Goldfein wrote: I guess 5 proposals and 2 CFJs for next week. You can't; you can only guess in the first five days of a week. Okay, then I guess 5 proposals and 2 CFJs for this week. That doesn't work either. On

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Aaron Goldfein wrote: I guess 5 proposals and 2 CFJs for next week. You can't; you can only guess in the first five days of a week.

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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Charles Walker wrote: > I guess 4 proposals and 4 CFJs. > > -- > Charles Walker > I guess 11 proposals and 7 CFJs. -coppro

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Cookie Jar Report > > Date of this report:  Tue  1 Sep 09 > Date of last report:  Thu 27 Aug 09 > (All times are UTC) > > > Deadline for guesses is the end of Friday each week. I guess 16 proposals, 5 CFJs

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:28, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Roger Hicks wrote: >>>  * 8 y-points to Wooble >>>  * 6 y-points to c-walker >>>  * 4 y-points to BobTHJ >>>  * 2 y-points to Wooble >> >> Is this in compliance with the Cookie Jar agreement? I thought prizes >>

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Roger Hicks wrote: >>  * 8 y-points to Wooble >>  * 6 y-points to c-walker >>  * 4 y-points to BobTHJ >>  * 2 y-points to Wooble > > Is this in compliance with the Cookie Jar agreement? I thought prizes > only paid to 3rd place? Why 4th place for CFJs but not propos

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 01:40, Ed Murphy wrote: > I award: > >  * 8 x-points to c-walker >  * 6 x-points to Wooble >  * 4 x-points to coppro > >  * 8 y-points to Wooble >  * 6 y-points to c-walker >  * 4 y-points to BobTHJ >  * 2 y-points to Wooble Is this in compliance with the Cookie Jar agreemen

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coppro wrote: > I guess 3 proposals and 11 CFJs NttPF

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Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Roger Hicks wrote: >> I guess 12 proposals and 9 CFJs. > > I guess 5 proposals and 4 CFJs. I guess 3 proposals and 11 CFJs

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c-walker wrote: > Murphy wrote: >> c-walker wrote: >>> I guess 9 proposals and 12 CFJs for this week. >> Ineffective, too late in the week. > > I guess 9 proposals and 12 CFJs for the next week in which I can guess. That doesn't work either.

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c-walker wrote: > I guess 9 proposals and 12 CFJs for this week. Ineffective, too late in the week.

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Invalid, guesses must now be in by the end of Friday (UTC). Bah, what idiot made that change? Oh. Right.

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Wooble wrote: > I guess 6 proposals, 9 CFJs Invalid, guesses must now be in by the end of Friday (UTC).

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Benjamin Caplan wrote: > I leave the Cookie Jar. I can't let you do that, Dave.

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > 4) The distribution of a proposal is a point-worthy event (counting > at most 5 proposals per author per week) for the X axis. Considering we can know right before the week starts how many I must legally distribute, it's surprising that people gu

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c-walker wrote: > I guess 8 CFJs for the next week for which I haven't already guessed. NttPF. > Murphy, does the proposal guessing system work by the number submitted > or the number distributed? 4) The distribution of a proposal is a point-worthy event (counting at most 5 proposals per author

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Murphy wrote: > Guesses for June 22-28          Proposals  CFJs > --- > Tue 16 Jun 16:35:58  c.            15       15 > Sun 21 Jun 08:50:09  c-walker      16        9 > Sun 21 Jun 08:54:13  Yally          8       12 >  * 4 x-points to c-walker > >  * 8

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Ed Murphy wrote: > Guesses for June 15-21 Proposals CFJs I intend, without objection from any party to The Cookie Jar, to amend The Cookie Jar by adding a paragraph: 6) Any party to this contract CAN leave it by announcement.

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allispaul wrote: > I guess 20 CFJs and 9 proposals. NttPF

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On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> Guesses for June 8-14           Proposals  CFJs > > I guess 40 CFJs and 7 proposals. > I guess 20 CFJs and 9 proposals.

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Pavitra wrote: > Sean Hunt wrote: >> I guess 7 proposals and 13 CFJs for next week. > 5 proposals, 10 CFJs. This was ttPF but you already guessed on June 2.

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2009/6/7 Ed Murphy : > Tiger wrote: > >> I reatract my previous guesses and guess 11 proposals and 9 CFJs. > > The contract doesn't recognize retraction.  Feel free to propose > changing that; it would change the dynamic somewhat. > I'll think about it. For now I'll just be happy with my original g

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Tiger wrote: > I reatract my previous guesses and guess 11 proposals and 9 CFJs. The contract doesn't recognize retraction. Feel free to propose changing that; it would change the dynamic somewhat.

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Tiger wrote: > If I haven't already guessed, I guess 10 proposals, 19 CFJs NttPF and you also already guessed on June 2.

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Yally wrote: > I guess 10 proposals and 10 CFJs. And you guessed already on June 2, anyway.

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Yally wrote: > I guess 10 proposals and 10 CFJs. NttPF

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2009/6/7 Benjamin Caplan : > Sean Hunt wrote: >> I guess 7 proposals and 13 CFJs for next week. > 5 proposals, 10 CFJs. > > Pavitra > If I haven't already guessed, I guess 10 proposals, 19 CFJs -- -Tiger

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On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:42, Ed Murphy wrote: > > Guesses for May 25-31 Proposals CFJs > > --- > > Tue 19 May 13:21:18 BobTHJ20 17 > > Tue 19 May 14:01:03 Quazie23

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ehird wrote: > This is ridiculously easy money. Only if your guess is one of the closest. The more contestants, the larger the prize, but the less likely (assuming all guesses are equally likely to be accurate) that any given player will get it.

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This is ridiculously easy money.

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Alex Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 21:08 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Cookie Jar Report > > wrt the Cookie Jar: I guess 19 proposals, 22 CFJs. > 15 proposals, 20 CFJs. Pavitra signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 22:08, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Guesses for May 11 - 17         Proposals  CFJs >> --- >> Mon  4 May 11:41:49  BobTHJ        18       14 >> Mon  4 May 11:58:26  Tiger         10  

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Pavitra wrote: > I guess 20 proposals and 30 CFJs. You already did, about 2 days earlier.

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Yally wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Aaron Goldfein > wrote: > > I guess 15 proposals and 15 CFJs. > > > Because OscarMeyr stepped on my guess... I retract my previous guess and > guess 13 proposals and 17 CFJs. Can't, it's only once per week. A

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Ed Murphy wrote: > Guesses for May 4 - 10 Proposals CFJs > --- > Wed 29 Apr 00:53:57 Quazie10 10 > Sun 3 May 22:12:06 Tiger 14 11 > Sun 3 May 22:16:38 coppro29 21 > Sun 3 May 22:21:53 Wooble

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Pavitra wrote: > [Presumably this should read "Guesses for May 11-17".] Yes, copy+paste error, corrected in draft.

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2009/5/4 Roger Hicks : > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 16:54, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> I join the cookie jar and guess 15 proposals at 10 CFJs. >> > I join cookie jar. I guess 18 proposals and 14 CFJs. > > BobTHJ > I guess 10 proposals and 11 CFJs. -- -Tiger

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Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > For next week, I guess 14 proposals and 11 judicial cases. > I guess 29 proposals at 21 judicial cases.

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ais523 wrote: > comex was inactive at the start of the week. At the start of the week, the active parties were me, coppro, Tiger, and ehird - correct?

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Hang on, Rule 2233 is based on the number of parties that are > active players, not contestants; thus, the Cookie Jar's limit > was indeed 20, and the 6-point award worked (and the 1-point > award failed). Oops, my bad. This would explain why

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On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 11:13 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > I wrote: > > > root wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > >>> I award 6 more y-points to Tiger for guessing the exact number of > >>> judicial cases for April 6-12. > >> This exceeds the Cookie Jar's weekly allo

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I wrote: > root wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: >>> I award 6 more y-points to Tiger for guessing the exact number of >>> judicial cases for April 6-12. >> This exceeds the Cookie Jar's weekly allowance of y-points by 5. Do >> we have a precedent for whether this

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > I award 6 more y-points to Tiger for guessing the exact number of > judicial cases for April 6-12. This exceeds the Cookie Jar's weekly allowance of y-points by 5. Do we have a precedent for whether this resulted in awarding 1 y-point, or fail

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > There are four active contestants (comex, coppro, ehird, Tiger), so I > can award up to 20 points per week and revoke up to 8 per week. comex was not active at the beginning of the week, so e doesn't count. -root

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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > Week of March 23-29: >  1 proposal (6167) >  8 CFJs (2429-36) > > Guesses: >  Mon 16 Mar 15:01:17  comex         --        0 >  Mon 16 Mar 15:05:46  Tiger         --        0 >  Mon 16 Mar 22:46:48  OscarMeyr      9        6  (non-contestant) >  M