I think the best part is the response from Ammiano, to whom the comment was directed: "I think it was very creative. They probably think they are even now and it's time to bury the hatchet." A little tit-for-tat and then move on seems appropriate.
Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger
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Re: Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger
#22Anyone cares to calculate the odds of this happening by accident?
All Things Considered interviewed an expert today, he calculated 5.5/1,000,000,000,000.
Re: Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger
#23Re: Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger
#24Anyone cares to calculate the odds of this happening by accident?
(1/26)^7 .. without getting too fancy with any sort of linguistic probabilities...
Well, let's get fancy:
f %2.228 0.02228
u %2.758 0.02758
c %2.782 0.02782
k %0.772 0.00772
y %1.974 0.01974
o %7.507 0.07507
u %2.758 0.02758
=
1/185,399,389,457
Re: Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
(1/26)^7 .. without getting too fancy with any sort of linguistic probabilities...
Well, let's get fancy: f %2.228 0.02228 u %2.758 0.02758 c %2.782 0.02782 k %0.772 0.00772 y %1.974 0.01974 o %7.507 0.07507 u %2.758 0.02758 = 1/185,399,389,457 This is global letter frequency, I need a table of first letter frequency.
Could not find a good first letter table, so made my own from gutenberg, so:
f %3.779 0.0378
u %1.487 0.0149
c %3.511 0.0351
k %0.690 0.0069
y %1.620 0.0162
o %6.264 0.0626
u %1.487 0.0149
=
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#2659 points? Color me surprised…
I was surely expecting downvotes because my comment didn't bring much to the table, but I'm still really surprised that this piece is still getting upvotes:
It has no link to anything startup or tech-related and is not intellectually interesting. It's just a "joke" (granted surprising) from a politician/actor.
From HN's guidelines:
"What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
So, yeah, I'm surprised that it's still on the front page and that I get downvoted for implying it doesn't have its place here. I understand that it's up to the community, but again, that's why I'm surprised: I didn't expect that from this community.
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#2759 points? Color me surprised…
I was surely expecting downvotes because my comment didn't bring much to the table, but I'm still really surprised that this piece is still getting upvotes: It has no link to anything startup or tech-related and is not intellectually interesting. It's just a "joke" (granted surprising) from a politician/actor. From HN's guidelines: "What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That incl…
I don't think I'm a "good hacker", but my first instinct was to try and find an algorithm that would generate these kinds of messages.
Language processing is always interesting.
Re: Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger
#28Does anyone know what Schwarzenegger's objections to this bill were?
Re: Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger
#29Anyone cares to calculate the odds of this happening by accident?
(1/26)^7 .. without getting too fancy with any sort of linguistic probabilities...
One has to factor in that there are thousands of things he could have printed that would have had roughly the same effect (eg. "Piss off", etc).