LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by emiliobumachar on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:40PM (#11044032)

I don't see the fallacy in it. It's just pointing out that a little time wasting at scale actually has a big impact.

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by jbbarth on Friday February 05, 2016 @03:18PM (#11044301)

The point is that everything at scale as an impact that looks big when aggregated... if you don't actually look at the scale.

135 out of 1B isn't big at all, it just looks big because of the biases we have when interpreting big numbers. Not mentioning the fact that the aggregation isn't very relevant (it's not like 135 people will have their entire life wasted while the others are not annoyed at all).

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by justinclift on Friday February 05, 2016 @05:15PM (#11045051)

If you're one of the 135 people's lives they've wasted... you might take it a bit more personally. :D

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by dingo_bat on Friday February 05, 2016 @10:37PM (#11046437)

But that's his point: Facebook's emails are not wasting anybody's entire life. The 135 number is an aggregate.

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by justinclift on Saturday February 06, 2016 @05:11AM (#11047180)

Sure, and he's trying to downplay it.

They're wasting 135 people's entire lives worth of time. Every single day. :(

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