"Probably" is more than one bit, not less, no? It conveys both uncertainty and an opinion on the answer.
"Is this tree deciduous?"
"Yes" - one bit
"Is this tree evergreen?"
"Probably" - one bit (they don't know), another bit (their guess)
But I'm way off any formal understanding of this, and it can be rigorously defined.
Meta comment: "half a bit" was clearly a joke, and so was my response; now I'm taking your reply at face value and debating it seriously, while admitting that I haven't got anything close to firm enough ground under me to actually debate it :)
I meant based on definition of a bit as "a yes or no answer to a single unambiguous question".
"Umm..." definitely carries some kind of information, but it doesn't actually help answer the question.
Based on the information theoretic definition of entropy we'd need to go from 50:50 to 89% certainty to get half a bit of information, and I'd probably qualify 89% certainty as "probably"
>In Seoul, South Korea, a speeding-up in traffic around the city was seen when a motorway was removed as part of
the Cheonggyecheon restoration project.[2] In Stuttgart, Germany after investments into the road network in 1969,
the traffic situation did not improve until a section of newly-built road was closed for traffic again.[3] In 1990 the
closing of 42nd street in New York City reduced the amount of congestion in the area.[4] In 2008 Youn, Gastner and
Jeong demonstrated specific routes in Boston, New York City and London where this might actually occur and
pointed out roads that could be closed to reduce predicted travel times.[5]
>If I'm spending my money on a slot, I have the chance to get my money back.
The risk there is of gambling addicts "borrowing" money with the intent of winning back their losses/debts, losing and repeating (as claimed with the Sliker situation that prompted this all). Throwing good money after bad is presumably much less common/excessive when you can't cash out
I'd argue the "experiencing unbearable suffering" part is redundant anyway, since "I'd literally rather die than continue to experience this" is about as close to a definition as you're going to get.
And while any standard of "sustained" and "prospect of improvement" will have their edge cases, that's arguably still better than either absolute of availability.
The problem is ensuring it's truly voluntary, which seems rather difficult
Retiring at 35 you should be able to get away with a 3.25% SWR [0], which'd give $65k/yr from $2M. But a) that'd be mostly long-term capital gains, which have lower taxes than regular income and b) you wouldn't have to save for retirement. So you'd probably end up with the spending power of someone making ~$80k salary
