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porphyrayesterday at 9:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Thanks for the correction. That sucks then. Dude should have stayed in his lane making rockets instead of commenting on agriculture.


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defenyesterday at 11:16 PM

It's a compelling example of the common phenomenon where a certified genius in one field makes a blunder by attempting to reason from first principles to analyze a problem in another field. Not that such things never work; there are success stories too, but it's not guaranteed.