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How though? the airplane was full.
by jldugger 3y ago
How though? the airplane was full.
- hilux 3y agoYou are "resulting," i.e. you're judging the correctness of a strategy by how it turned out THIS time. Read Annie Duke's book.
- kortilla 3y agoYou are “not reading”. They couldnt have “let him fly” as you suggest because there were no seats left on the flight.
- sandspar 3y agoYou're doing the same thing, "resulting" because this time he almost got away with it. In reality, a scheme like this would work maybe one in twenty times. "Think in bets" on a 5% chance of success.
- jldugger 3y agoNa, I'm saying they literally can't do the thing you want them to. But let's use a reference on ethics a little more sophisticated than a poker player: Immanel Kant. Would this strategy still be a good idea if everyone did it? Clearly not. Setting aside how few people can hide in one water closet, if nobody pays for tickets there won't be an airplane to hide on. Frankly, anyone encouraging this behavior is suspect and reflects poorly on the HN community, which is likely why your post is being greyed out.
- hilux 3y agoRe: your last sentence, this tells me that "the HN community" skews toward programmers who are happy to collect big paychecks while turning a blind eye to where the money comes from, e.g. what their founders and CEOs did to successfully startup. Airbnb, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber - off the top of my head - all very prosperous and genteel now, but all came from hardscrabble rule-breaking backgrounds.