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simmerup 28 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't be a meat proxy

You can also respond ‘I don’t know’ instead of doing the equivalent of responding with the first page of an ‘I feel lucky’ google search

jspdown 28 days ago [–]

This is a very good analogy. You have to do way more effort to make sure it's correct than if you have asked it yourself with a controlled context. I generally don't want to feel lucky when I ask questions to coworkers.

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