[deleted] comments on Details of lab-made bird flu won’t be revealed [link]

[deleted] 25 Dec 2011 6:19 UTC
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80% of a secret is knowing that it exists.
- Armok_GoB 25 Dec 2011 19:33 UTC
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  That is only true for certain types of secrets.
  
  Scandals: 80% Technologies: 30% Passwords: <1%
  - wedrifid 25 Dec 2011 19:40 UTC
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    Scandals: 80%
    
    “Someone did something scandalous but I don’t know what!”.
    
    (How do I cash in this knowledge for status?)
    - Armok_GoB 25 Dec 2011 19:56 UTC
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      I don’t know how to do that given every detail about the event.
      - wedrifid 25 Dec 2011 19:59 UTC
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        I don’t know how to do that given every detail about the event.
        
        Really? Pick one:
        
        Gossip.
        Publish (ie. sell to tabloid.)
        Blackmail.
        Undermine rival.
        Armok_GoB 25 Dec 2011 21:56 UTC
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        Honestly? I have no idea. the word “scandal” was just the first that popped up in my brain for “That kind of social-ish secret like in HP:MoR”.
- wedrifid 25 Dec 2011 16:55 UTC
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  80% of a secret is knowing that it exists.
  
  Counterpoint: No, really it isn’t.
- Nymogenous 25 Dec 2011 18:17 UTC
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  That must be why underinformed nuclear programs require so little testing to develop a functional warhead. Oh, wait...