Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It

Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by marklgr on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:54AM (#16212018)

Fair, but establishing the truth from a mathematical standpoint and navigating in life, which involves a huge amount of (most often serviceable) rules of thumbs, are two different things. So there seems to be some arbitrary threshold where the rules of thumb is deemed good enough (eg. my toddler has chocolate all over him near the empty cookie jar) and when it's not (eg. put-up job). And from my experience, people will very, very often set that arbitrary threshold according to their own opinions.

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Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by psergeant on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:15AM (#16212097)

I wonder how often you consider “the truth as always somewhere in the middle” and decide that your toddler has been partially framed by the cat, while also having stolen some of the cookies.

I suspect not often.

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Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by marklgr on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @05:35AM (#16212421)

Hardly anyone ever seriously accuses the cat, which is why the rule of thumb works in the first place. That's pretty much my point.

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