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Sure, but not with a 4-second calculation based on a news headline. That's the larger point here.

Exactly. Counting cards at the blackjack table in Vegas isn't illegal, but they won't let you play after they figure out that you are. You can can beat the bookmakers, but once you do, you either get cut off or you only get offered odds with more juice.

How much are you willing to gamble on the prospect that you're in the top 0.1%? And before you answer, consider that you haven't been evicted so you're obviously not in the top 0.01%.

With all due respect, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume you aren’t that geek since 99.9 + 0.01 != 100.

With all due respect, those numbers are on purpose, i.e.:

99.9% of customers who are not trying to beat them to win

0.01% of customers whose outmathing is so good it is causing them problems.

The rest are customers who are outmathing them, but not enough to cause them problems. And by problems I mean problems worth spending their time on.