Comment by LeafItAlone

14 days ago

Ah, yes, the often used, peer-reviewed, expert-backed source of just listing random things. Thank you.

If you were looking for truth you wouldn’t reply like this. I’m not going to do an hour of work to carefully cite this for you, but it’s true nonetheless.

  • It is yours to provide evidence of your claims, not mine.

    >If you were looking for truth

    Except, with this, I don’t expect you to.

    • > It is yours to provide evidence of your claims, not mine.

      This is a common weird mistake people make on HN - I'm not publishing a paper so, no I don't. Really there's minimal rules of engagement here. You could say you think I'm wrong, which I'd be curious to hear why.

      It's more productive to first discuss things casually, and then if there's specific disagreements to dig in. If you disagree with my statement, please tell me which countries you think specifically I'm more likely wrong about. You don't need to cite anything, either do I. If we actually do disagree, then we can go off and do our own research, or if we're really motivated bring it back here.

      But there's no burden for anything, and it's actually better in many cases to first chat before we dig in and try and out-cite each other.

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