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Re:Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb... by kilburn on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:04AM (#18707548)
Apparently there's people who have hard feelings in this argument too.

I could understand people downvoting my comment (it may be interpreted as harsh even if that wasn't my intention) but... yours? Something weird is at play here.

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Re:Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb... by 0-_-0 on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:29PM (#18708479)
Maybe it's just people being emotionally invested in Nate Silver being right (because they defended him publicly before for example), so they interpret any criticism of Nate Silver as a personal attack.
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