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Instead of continuing to muddy the conversation why don’t you just settle it by providing a clear answer to this question?: What should we do differently depen
by estearum 1y ago
Instead of continuing to muddy the conversation why don’t you just settle it by providing a clear answer to this question?:
What should we do differently depending on the outcome?
The miasma alternative for cholera is another excellent illustration of my point, not yours. The answer to whether miasma theory or contaminated wells was correct very obviously had bearing on how you’d mitigate the problem, and this characteristic was totally evident even before answering the question.
If someone could specifically state what we should do differently depending on the answer, I’m amenable to it. But you haven’t done that because the answer is: nothing!
- timschmidt 1y agoOther folks here have tried to have that conversation with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502746 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502746 Feel free to respond to them.
- estearum 1y agoNo actually if you read two comments further, you’ll notice they said “indeed” it doesn’t make a difference. Then tried a poorly reasoned analogy to reach their prior conclusion indirectly. I note that, once again, you can’t answer the simple question that’d settle the debate in your favor.
- timschmidt 1y agoWe understand their responses very differently then. I trust that others will make their own decisions having read the thread.