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0 pointsZanni8y ago0 comments

This is one of those ideas that seems obvious at first glance ... and then problematic with more thought. Have you ever gotten 100% of the peanut butter out of a jar? I haven't. Is that fraud? There's a distinction to be made between jars of peanut butter and ink cartridges, but it wouldn't be easy to draw that line. (For an even better example, see Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1 ...)

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sliken8y ago

Sort of, imagine if when you were 90% through a jar of peanut butter it auto-closed the lid and you couldn't even open it.

What's worse would be if peanut butter was widely acknowledged to be safe to eat for 12 months, but the jar wouldn't open after 6 months.

kbenson8y ago

> Have you ever gotten 100% of the peanut butter out of a jar?

Peanut butter? No. I've gotten really close to 100% out of most containers of liquid though.

The exact location of the line between them might be hard to pin down, but when comparing things as dissimilar as that, it's a great big fat line so the overlap of where you put it and where it should be is probably pretty large, making it easy to place with some confidence.

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