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by elevatortrim 302 days ago
Yes but for the purposes of these conversations, we do not need to say "good juniors" "good engineers" every time. After all, for every task, it is possible to find someone who is really bad at it, and we should not need to keep repeating we are not talking about _that_ person.
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ah you're a mathematician I see. without loss of generality, let's assume the bottom half doesn't exist. therefore only the top half needs to be bested and the task is now impossible. qed.