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bee_riderlast Tuesday at 2:37 PM1 replyview on HN

That’s pretty bad. On top of being unfair, it was a total missed opportunity to talk about the law of large numbers (I wonder if they could get a decent sample by combining everybody’s measurements) or skew (maybe everybody is a couple milliseconds too low just based on reaction time).

Or there could be some air resistance if you used, like, ping-pong balls.


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borgsterlast Tuesday at 10:03 PM

Correct. Ask anyone who plays blitz/bullet chess online. Games are won and lost in the final second of gameplay.