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		exporectomy on June 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes ... Haha. I read larsrc's confident comment and thought, ah, the blogger must have been wrong. Then got to the equally confident replies and realized everyone's confident and coherent on HN (vs confident and ranting looney on the general internet) and I need to calibrate my gullibility :P

bombcar on June 27, 2021 [–]

Assume 99% of everyone on the internet is wrong and incorrecting each other.

And yes this means if half say C and half say Not-C they both are 99% wrong. :)

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