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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by lmm on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:29PM (#36794385)
> counting Iceland/Luxembourg for obvious reasons

Obviously you wouldn't want to count any cases that contradict your claims.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by rank0 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:36PM (#36794455)
Lol. The US is hundreds of times larger than those countries. It does t even have to be about the US…

Do you really think it’s reasonable to compare Luxembourg with its 600k population to a country like Germany which has 84M citizens?

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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:17PM (#36794876)
This sort of rationale would seem to suggest that you also cannot take examples of bits and pieces of the USA and compare them with the country as a whole.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by rank0 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:48PM (#36795139)
Yes I agree with that! It makes no sense to compare Beverly Hills to the state of Oklahoma.
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