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this won't cost the city too much, there's only like a hundred kids under 6 in this city and 3% of them are mine.
by amirhirsch 9mo ago
this won't cost the city too much, there's only like a hundred kids under 6 in this city and 3% of them are mine.
- bryanrasmussen 9mo agoHN poster responds: "You have 0.18 kids under 6! That seems unlikely!"
- Groxx 9mo agonah, it just means you get 18% of childcare costs paid.
- normie3000 9mo agoAm i missing the joke? ChatGPT tells me 3% of 100 is 3, not 0.18.
- transcriptase 9mo agoYou’re missing something if you asked ChatGPT that.
- f33d5173 9mo ago.18 is 3% of 6. This might mean something, but I don't know what.
- bryanrasmussen 9mo agothe next number in the sequence 3, 6, 18 is 72, but I doubt it means anything.
- robocat 9mo ago10 months out of six years is 0.14 so it isn't quite prenatal benefits. What happens if an unborn baby has rights to go to preschool, but the birthing parent can't? Is an unborn child a US citizen yet?
- bryanrasmussen 9mo agoWhen I first read it I thought wait, 3% of 6 is 0.18, but then I realized no I'm a dork because 6 is the age of the kid, whereas the number 100 is written as a word hundred, hence I decided to write "HN poster responds:" with quotes around my first non-coffee aided thought because I thought it was funny. I guess I should have just made that full statement, but I do have a tendency to rather oblique communication strategies. on edit: basically because I thought hah, this is the kind of mistake I always see poor tired folks make on HN and making the dumb comment and here I am making it!! This is a classic moment!
- amirhirsch 9mo agoI gave your reply the most generous interpretation and read it in the ironic way as you point out in the edit
- bryanrasmussen 9mo agothanks!
- xlii 9mo agoI think the joke is people trying to figure out why 0.18. I, personally, enjoy it.
- beAbU 9mo agoOff topic: what are you trying to signal by saying chatgpt helped you with arithmetic here? Is it supposed to give more weight to what you are saying?
- etrautmann 9mo agoI read it as a side joke about how people overuse chtgpt for trivial tasks
- beAbU 9mo agoI hope that's the case!
- ThePowerOfFuet 9mo ago>ChatGPT tells me 3% of 100 is 3 Sweet baby Jesus in his high chair. Whatever happened to just firing up a calculator app that's already on the device you were using? Or bashing "100/3" into the search box in your OS or browser? Do you ask ChatGPT how long to cook spaghetti instead of reading it off the package you just took the spaghetti out of? Honest question.
- andsoitis 9mo ago> ChatGPT tells me 3% of 100 is 3, FYI: % (percent) literally means "out of a hundred".
- veunes 9mo agoWhen people say "there are barely any kids," they're often describing the outcome of past policy choices, not a reason to avoid changing them