Then how do you explain Adelaide remembering it in "The Waters of Mars"?

Not an excuse. An explanation.

Not only that, but nobody knew what a Dalek was in 2012 (1x06 "Dalek," natch) despite the Series 4 finale taking place in 2009.

Except at no point are you choosing between breaking even and taking a loss. You're choosing between a $1.03 loss and a potential $0.05 loss. The real problem is that you know your opponent's going to be following the same logic.

Kurzweil also argued that once the integrated circuit ran out of steam, computer chip designs would switch to something else, like the integrated circuit itself followed relays, vacuum tubes, and discrete transistors.

On the off-chance that anyone's ever wondered, my username is completely unrelated to this character. I've been using it since, uh...looks like late 2001. Probably December, maybe November.

Apparently, the official title is "The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra."

So what actually changed in its play behavior? What was it doing well/badly before reading the manual?

Ahem:

Meant to post this yesterday, but I guess it didn't take:

There's no shortage of worthy causes, but people have finite donation budgets. So how do you choose your recipients?

If you have a number that is infinitely large (one with an infinite number of digits)

why not accept it as fact?

Nice. Now try 27.

If it ever hits 1.xxx, you've done something wrong. In fact, you've done something wrong if you ever get x.5 — the previous number would have to have been an odd number, meaning you should've tripled and added one instead of halving.

Wait, aren't the melting point and the freezing point the same thing?

And occasionally, they turn out to not be right. Sometimes, for these conjectures, specific huge numbers are discovered that they're not true for. In this case, it'd be a cycle (other than 4-2-1) or a sequence of numbers that just keeps going up. (Well, it'd be up-and-down, because the 3n+1 step has to be followed by…

Am I the only fan of the original Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH book here? (I've never even seen the movie.)