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219 points skadamat | 1 comments | 20 Aug 24 13:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source

1. kqr ◴[20 Aug 24 16:21 UTC] No.41301423[source]▶

This is one of my favourite queueing theory-adjacent consequences.

As the article notes, it's the same reason the average coin in a sequence of tosses will be in a longer run than the average run length.

The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)