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mindcrime on Oct 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Getting started in biology with a software...

But they did say "many of them are idiots", which is similar

Similar, yes. But, at least to my mind, there's a pretty big jump from "many" to "most". But maybe that's just me. shrug

xeromal on Oct 31, 2019 [–]

Mot really, many still sounds like more than 50%. That's a huge claim

blotter_paper on Nov 1, 2019 | [–]

Nope, we have a separate word for that: most.

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