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infinitewarstoday at 3:51 PM0 repliesview on HN

Percents of percents always felt kludgey.

Log probabilities (like decibans) unify this to say there is a -0.86 dB risk reduction for everybody.

https://rationalnumbers.james-kay.com/?p=306

It makes the math of combining risks easier and works the same even if we're operating near 99.999% or 0.0001%