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by troupo 346 days ago
> And companies are now pursuing the best coin tossing techniques to get tail.

With the only difference that the techniques for throwing coins can be verified by comparing the results of the tosses. More generally it's known as forcing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcing_(magic)

What we have instead is companies (and people) saying they have perfected the toss not just for a specific coin, but for any objects in general. When it's very hard to prove that it's true even for a single coin :)

That said, I really like your comment :)