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trungaczne
10 hours, 89 points and 0 comments? That's a first.
harryf
It's a statistical anomaly
Noseshine
The thing about statistics is that while you have a statistical explanation on the population level you still have an individual explanation on the level of individuals.
dang
I'm a sucker for Cunningham's Law, but aren't we all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11122973

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12134303

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11017603

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12473851

That's in the last year. Looks like there are 31 stories total with no (live) comments and > 89 points. But then there are all the ones where people posted about there being lots of points and no comments...

lma21
/off-topic and probably a useless question how did you retrieve those links? you had them bookmarked :-) ?
dang
I wrote a bit of code to find them.
trungaczne
I meant "That's a first" as in it was a first for me. I've seen threads almost empty where the only comments are discussion why they are so empty, but that's usually within 5-6 hours of the thread creation. I've never personally seen a completely empty thread. This seems like an extreme anomaly personally, at least until you revealed the statistics.

Curious, how many threads were created last year?

dang
360k threads and 1.89M comments.
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_fh5n
Is he ill or something? He doesn't seem old enough to be fading out so often like he does... Is he lost in a world of data even when he's giving talks?
ekianjo
Maybe he was just tired ?