Martok comments on But There's Still A Chance, Right? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Martok 23 April 2012 10:47:09PM 6 points [-]

However: apply 1:1E6 to 260E6 million people in the US in 1994, there's probably 130 couples like them.

Far from the "still not happening even if you flip a (weighted) coin every second since the big bang"- chance in the post, but since Lloyd probably did not do the math and just ignored the actual value... yep, classical example.