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I view 'imply' as 'suggest' and 'prove' is 'this is a fact'. Correlation does in fact imply causation (which is why correlations are investigated). It just doesn't prove the causat…

Except that's not right. It may be. In fact persuing correlations is how we do science. At some point we gain enough confidence in the correlations that we call it causation.

>Today, if there's correlation, unless it's clearly spurious/etc, and unless somebody has a better idea, I tell the product/eng team to push hard on it and don't even mention corre…

>never seek out advice from reliable resources. What reliable resources would those be? Poorly defined, crap studies done by people who've never had children and the study was neve…

Some of those are so bad as to be straight up dangerous (e.g. r/fitness).

Posts like this seem so dishonest. The entire point of shilling would be hiding the fact that your shilling (otherwise you'd buy an ad), so of course we don't have deep documentati…

>let's say polite Elon Musk Uh... where do you get this impression? My impression is that Musk easily fits in the same bucket as Ellison / Jobs / Bezos

Are you seriously trying to claim Snopes isn't biased? I would say that's the more outrageous claim here. If Snopes is absent of any bias, what is their methodology by which they a…

They weren't voting between Trump and no one. The alternative was Hillary Clinton. For a conservative christian you'll have a hard time finding someone they'd be more scared of hav…

Ugh. Is what happened so very difficult to understand? Chistians were faced with voting for someone they were generally not comfortable with vs. someone believed to be truly evil. …

That's not fair. Everyone had the option of voting so nothing is forced on anyone. If you don't like what the people who actually voted picked, then try voting next time.

Funny enough, the creator of Perl's previously well known accomplishment was winning these contests pretty much any time he cared to join. Take that as you will.

>and then clarify the question title to reflect the problem they need help with. How many times have you seen that happen? Further that only occurs in an XY situation where the que…

Again, you're assuming the question is "wrong". But how likely is it that every single person who asks that question is wrong? With your line of thinking you help the OP and anyone…

> it is in my view completely useless if it doesn't solve the problem. Well, this is exactly the problem I'm describing: you're trying to solve the problem for one user when the an…

>In such cases where the OP and the community agrees, reformatting the question would avoid making a useless landing page. And if the question is 10 years old the day I need to ref…

>since this is optimizing for a hypothetical future reader at the expense of the actual person having a problem Which is fine because there are N potential future readers but only …

It's highly presumptious to assume you know better than the person asking. You might, but you might not. The fact that SO serves as a collection of programming knowledge, you do no…

No, this is unacceptable. Ideally you should first answer the question, then explain why it shouldn't be done. If you don't have enough time, then drop the second part. And the rea…

Can you get an interest only loan on a home in the USA?

It's very simple: Unit tests test a specific "unit" (i.e. in an OO language, that's a class) and integration tests test the ingration of multiple units. In OO languages, I personal…

Well, I think from Roy's point of view REST is only HATEOAS. So URL's are irrelevant; you can put version numbers in there if you want but no client should realize it. What you sho…

> If the Golang team has had enough time to cherry pick the best ideas and lessons learned to build a language Except where have they done that? They've had 40 years and their solu…

Flagged. This comment is so awful, ignorant and offensive (especially to actual victims of sexual violence!). Wow, how on earth does someone come up with such a ludicrus, insane op…

>the entire discussion on QuickCheck is hard to really make sense of and arbitrary is a famously good use of type classes I found it understandable but for me the issue was: all th…