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Presumably the rest of us are more interested in solving a fun math problem than in being smartasses. It is trivially easy to set up an example in which the uniform prior is valid. It so happens that the warped-coin story is more entertaining to think about, but before dismissing the problem on a technicality you should consider addressing the spirit of the problem rather than the letter.