• jet@hackertalks.com
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      20 hours ago

      Just like calories don’t technically exist in humans. It’s useful even though it’s not completely accurate

      Life is filled with lots of these approximate lies that are more useful then not

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        4 hours ago

        Everything you said was true, but there’s a small group of shortcuts that are very harmful when misused. “IQ”, “GDP”, and many others are routinely used in bad ways, and are therefore not ‘more useful than not’. So overall, correct, but specific usage of these distinct meanings are very harmful, and always worth scrutinizing.