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I will point out to all the people surprised at the time lining up that if the issue is a timer then this is likely very common. There are only 1440 minutes in a day, and waking hours are half that brinignrh it very close to the birthday paradox (double). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem.

If you consider 4 time zones in the us it's actually more common than birthdays since you'd divide by four again and people would suspect both a company wide tx synced issue and a per tx issue.

With 23 people about 1/3rd of the people commenting at this point we get a chance of 2 people colliding as:

Full day: 16% 12 Hour: 29% Across time zones: 79%



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