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Re:Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs? by thfuran on Thursday June 30, 2022 @12:04PM (#31934506)
>Death is not a once per year risk.

It absolutely is in the context of a discussion of annualized mortality rates.

Re:Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs? by dahart on Thursday June 30, 2022 @06:15PM (#31939368)
My point was a response to the statement that baggage checking happens more than once per year. Life also happens more than once per year, and in fact it happens more often than checking baggage, right?

It’s misleading to annualize these stats because the participation rates per hour and per day are very very different. This is why sports risk is usually calculated in participation hours and not annualized, to prevent such misleading comparisons.