From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:22:05 -0700, Snidely    
   wrote:   
      
   >Boron Elgar wrote on 8/31/2021 :   
      
   >> Silver made huge sums of money selling pieces of himself to large   
   >> corporations a couple of times, losing some of his best working   
   >> consultants along the way, and now he thinks his personal opinions are   
   >> what people crave and respect - not his numbers, but his ideas/deep   
   >> down feelings about society, gender, human rights and maybe a bit of   
   >> politics if it's Thursday and isn't raining. Trouble is, at least   
   >> IMHO, his ideas are biased and stupid.   
   >   
   >I've mostly been looking at the sports postings lately, with a few of   
   >the science postings.  Nate Silver posts are pretty rare in those   
   >headings.   
   >   
      
   The sports things are decent. I still like that.   
      
   >(Nate did quite a few during the conventions last year, when I was   
   >still looking at the politics, but I haven't done the full site quite   
   >so much this year what with anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, and   
   >sTrumptets.)   
   >   
   Silver has been so dragged on Twitter, that I wonder why he bothers   
   with all the opinion blather. He is going on about Covid regs on   
   campuses this week - not exactly his lane.   
      
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