• ganksy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Why wasn’t the fact that Nate Silver is not affiliated with FiveThirtyEight your opening sentence? It didn’t occur to me, until the parent comment, that you were not arguing for FiveThirtyEight. As an aside, I, and no one else here, were privy to the fact you listen to some podcast.

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      4 months ago

      Because it doesn’t have to be. They’re two different thoughts. Hence the paragraph break. Moreover, I note in my first goddamn sentence that Silver is good at odds regardless of who he works for. That clearly implies acknowledgement that Silver is working for an organization funded by Thiel, rather than for an ABC affiliate.