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It's annoying that the bins are like this, instead of 0, 1-250, 251-500, etc...
by jmilloy 12y ago
It's annoying that the bins are like this, instead of 0, 1-250, 251-500, etc...
- hawkice 12y agoThe minimum band size is 250, so the 0 bucket would be too small. This is the best they can do without the feds bringing down the hammer.
- eterm 12y agoAs a computer type person I'd like them to keep 250 bands and go with [-125,124], [125,374], but I guess the real world gets in the way.
- nippoo 12y agoIf they could do that, they should "coincidentally" define their bands to be centred around the actual value. "We can't say we received 84 requests this year. We can only tell you it was in the band [-166, 84]"...
- msravi 12y agoWhat if I created a band containing 0 and some urealistically high numbers? For example what if my band would include [0,1M-1M+248]. Everyone knows that 1M+ is unrealistic, so...
- gknoy 12y agoI believe the judge would say something that translates roughly to "don't be a wiseass". That, and the guidelines in the above-linked pdf specify bands of either 0-999 or 0-249.
- superuser2 12y agoThe legal memo specifically proscribes a 2-year delay on reporting that the number has moved between 0 and >= 1.