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Random predictions from a carefully curated list of predictions1 made by the smartest2 people in the world: Hacker News commenters.


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1SELECT * FROM bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full WHERE text LIKE "%I predict%" on the Hacker News BigQuery dataset, plus some mild preparation.
2This site uses "smartest" and "most pedantic" interchangeably.