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Perhaps we've gone so deep into the thread that you've forgotten how we got here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983561

Perhaps with a statement like "But you'd never flat-out ignore the blatantly obvious like shift times." then you understand why people don't like stack ranking because yes people do ignore blatantly obvious things.

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Not forgotten, but not particularly relevant. The context we followed only inherited the athletics analogy and how it parallels with baristas.

Sometimes it is necessary to ignore the blatantly obvious. You can't meaningfully alter the ranking of a sports team because their star player was out with a broken leg. You have to accept the circumstances for what they are.

But I'm not sure that translates to something like shift times which are fundamental to the game.

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