Buffon's Needle Problem (en.wikipedia.org)

Every post is a dupe of itself. We don't need any more posts on HN

The parent commenter might have been trying to say that a different post was a duplicate of this one. (When the HN mods remove duplicates, they sometimes move comments from one thread to another in order to consolidate the discussion.)

perhaps he meant this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100971

sorry dang, and thanks.