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A Brain Teaser of an Obituary

10 points • by droidjj • yesterday at 2:49 PM • 4 comments • view on HN

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quuxplusone • today at 5:28 PM

Stop clickbait: Steve Selvin, originator of the "Monty Hall Problem," has died.

The obituary doesn't link directly to it, but Selvin's original letter-to-the-editor of "The American Statistician" 29.1 (Feb 1975) about the "Monte [sic] Hall Problem" is reproduced at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2683689 .

hughdbrown • today at 6:03 PM

Wow, this is a new one. If you try to look at this with the archive.is link [1], the article is covered with a pink-lavender suppository that obscures the text. If you try to remove it from the HTML with DevTools, it *automatically reappears*. I guess this is the latest step in the Paywall Wars.

[1] https://archive.is/rOVsN

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