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Re:Ask HN: How to disclose something without disclosing it? by mandelbrotwurst on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:31PM (#17537712)
Proposition: IF safety features increase AND safety features cause drivers to behave more recklessly THEN there will be an increase in traffic fatalities.

This does not hold if the reductions in fatalities caused by the safety features are larger than the (alleged!) increase in fatalities caused by additional recklessness.

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Re:Ask HN: How to disclose something without disclosing it? by yeldarb on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:30AM (#17540736)
Sure, but the GP’s hypothesis was that “the best way to make the road super safe [is to] replace the airbags by a long pointy metal spike that goes next to the driver throat.” That doesn’t follow.
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Re:Ask HN: How to disclose something without disclosing it? by 1996 on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:39AM (#17541594)
It was a joking way to say that driver behavior was affected by safety feature, not an actual proposal to install said spikes on all cars
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