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talon8635last Monday at 8:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

Regarding the beer analogy, can anyone on earth survive 365 beer servings of alcohol without dying? Are you demanding research that 365 beers at once is more harmful than 1/day/year?


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lstoddlast Monday at 8:55 PM

365 beers even if 0.33l.. one would die of acute electrolytic disbalance while being quite drunk, about same as if one would neither drink nor eat anything but water.

edit: IIRC it takes about 10 liters of water to commit suicide. Depends on body weight of course.

epistasisyesterday at 4:48 AM

The analogy is an obviously true statement that has been extensively documented with enormous amounts of evidence, followed by a statement that has no solid evidence to support it.

Why would you think that I object to the obviously true statement, unless you are being obtuse?