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Splitting hairs in bad faith is not constructive to the points being made here.
by rf15 4mo ago
Splitting hairs in bad faith is not constructive to the points being made here.
- TheTaytay 4mo agoTrue, but I actually had no idea that it was the soft parts rather than the hard parts that had been fossilized. (I haven’t verified it yet.) Either way, it didn’t read like a bad faith interpretation/comment.
- My_Name 4mo agoIt wasn't written to be one. If the author went to the trouble of making a 3D space filled with many shells, knowing the actual shell was most likely a different shape would be something they would probably want to know, so the position of their fossil could be placed more accurately in the graphed space.
- kaonwarb 4mo agoReads to me like a fascinating and relevant distinction.
- Ericson2314 4mo agoNo, a layperson doing a bunch of math but barking up the wrong tree theory-wise is actually super instructive for this forum of autodidacts. And I say that as one of the autodidacts.
- ex-aws-dude 4mo agohow is that splitting hairs? it’s an actual interesting point