The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
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Rivest: No wine in the world costs over $40 to produce
“There's no single bottle of wine in the world that costs more than about 30 or 40 dollars to produce.”
Rivest: China is the world's sixth or seventh largest wine producer
“China is the sixth or seventh, ah, world's largest producer of wine today.”
Rivest: The elementary school tongue map of taste is completely false
“There's this other kind of slightly ridiculous notion out there that was vehiculated for years of a tongue map, whereas we taste this sweetness in the on the front of the tongue, acidity on the side, bitterness on the back. That was a mistake from the start. I…”
Rivest: Any wine sealed with natural cork can become corked
“Any wine can be corked. Port can be corked. Sparkling wine can be corked. But there's this, every time I have a corked sparkling wine, people, so often, oh, I didn't know sparkling wine could be corked. Yeah, of course, any wine can, any, anything that's close…”