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by axaxs 2304 days ago
The first paragraph is basically how I'll always remember him. Stack ranking is a farce. He was incredibly fortunate, but insisted it was his ideas instead. It's the equivalent to a vice heavy person winning the lottery, then writing a book claiming that if you want to be rich, you need to smoke and drink daily, and the proof is that I'm rich.
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The post hoc fallacy rears its head everywhere, if you look closely enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc