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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by baddox on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:40PM (#6512262)
Only naively. If there is a clear reason why there is no evidence of absence (e.g. no one has ever looked for evidence), I don't see how this "basic result" is true in any meaningful way.
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by mistercow on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:27PM (#6512437)
No, not only naively. Absolutely.

The trick is that the strength of the evidence is not equivalent. It is not correct to say "Evidence of strong evidence is strong evidence of absence". More generally, A is strong evidence of B does not imply that ¬A is strong evidence of ¬B.

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