This game has such a special place in my heart - like others, I have some beautiful handmade boards, some of which have been in my family for a couple generations. Canadian as well which seems thematically common here. My father and I spend as much time trash-talking each other about playing as we do playing. And my grandmother was a complete shark, the crokinole matriarch who would put any of us to shame.
Another reason why I will always appreciate HN and its breadth of community and interests.
Audience. What may come across as question dance dazzle might suffice to impress or allay concerns of certain people (employees, investors, etc), but it's not probable to work the same under oath and the techniques of prosecution. It's hard to dance around evidence with what you say, no matter how its said, with evidence to the contradictory put right in front of the court.
Only by way of anecdotal experience, but if I skip a meal (or worse, two) I tend towards massive overindulgence at a later meal, and I don't have an innate sense for calorie intake estimation. So I will often end up eating far more calories at the later meal than I might have skipped in the earlier one.
In practice, almost never. Internet arguments seldom result in both sides agreeing on a single outcome. Nobody is convincing anyone else of anything on the internet (most of the time).
Insurance companies have already begun publishing reports indicating that excess mortality rates are inversely related to vaccine adoption (i.e. higher excess mortality in states with lower vaccination rates).
My father worked in early IT days and a major fixture in my home growing up was boxes - and I mean dozens and dozens of boxes filled with thousands each - of punch cards they stopped using (all unpunched).
They made for fantastic quick note-taking, grocery-list making, or leaving notes for the family.
This is a super fun site from a pure nostalgia perspective.
This is a key point in the article. The researchers (original) did not want to throw out the data that doesn't "seem random", this group argues in favour of doing so.