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Re:Eat Real Food by NelsonMinar on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:06PM (#46532786)
A stopped clock is right twice a day. These recommendations come from a corrupted source and therefore have no value.
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Re:Eat Real Food by brianf0 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:11PM (#46532872)
This... is so silly.
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Re:Eat Real Food by buellerbueller on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:28PM (#46533149)
...but you just made the argument that corrupted sources can be, on occasion, correct.
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Re:Eat Real Food by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:29PM (#46534766)
There's no contradiction there. A stopped clock is sometimes right and has no information value.

If a particular clock was never right, that would actually give it positive information value, because it would at least tell you one time it isn't.

One of the big design flaws of the engima machine was that no plaintext letter ever encrypted to the same letter.

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