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Comment Math (Score 1) 315

305million / 8million = 38.125

So for every time Sprint turned over GPS data there are 38 Americans. Usually we express this the other way around. 8/305 = 2.6%

That is, if each request represented a unique individual, which is probably not the case.

Comment not meaningless (Score 1) 243

Far from clear, full of apparent contradictions and atypical associations, not meaningless.

It seems at first impossible that something would be both colorless and green, but given that the subject is ideas we're obviously meant to apply the abstract meanings of the adjectives. So green ideas refers to ideas that are eco-friendly, and colorless ideas most likely refers to ideas that are racially ambivalent. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Sleeping is typically associated with living organisms but may also be applied to anything that goes through a period of inactivity such as a sleeping volcano. A sleeping idea might be one that is not accompanied by action.

Furiosity is difficult to reconcile with sleeping. Furiosity indicates a high level of agitation. Agitation naturally leads to activity. There must be some constraint preventing this from happening. Learned helplessness could account for this. Alternately we could interpret this to mean the ideas are actually quite active although they appear dormant.

Incidentally Noam Chomsky used this sentence in 1957 as an example of a grammatical sentence that probabilistic grammar models would find ungrammatical. link

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