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No. Celebrities are, by definition, well known. To pull an example from the article, Ted Bundy certainly qualifies as a celebrity who would generally not be considered beloved.

Absolutely. Syntax highlighting for me is much more about what not to read than it is about what to read. It can be skipping over 'for' for the billionth time but often it's also r…

I think comparing text and code actually makes perfect sense but you have to compare the right text. Pick up any reference book. A dictionary, a textbook, a phone book, whatever. L…

I actually crawled through enough of those links to get an idea of what happened and I still don't see anywhere that YC/dang really went wrong. I'm sure it's in there somewhere but…

That is a very different line of reasoning from that to which I was responding. IANAL so I'm not comfortable speculating too far but "it's entrapment if the government asks you to …

The brokers reaching out to the students doesn't mean entrapment, even if we took the case where the brokers actually were government agents. To be entrapment, someone working on t…

> Where am I going wrong? In short, infinities are complicated and intuition doesn't work well. In slightly longer, you're talking about the difference of the rate of growth of two…

In the case where you're using a fingerprint unlock for your own phone, you are both Henchman #752 and the boss.

> Would you design mathematical notations based on the opinion of 5th graders? It's not their opinions. It's about how they naturally think. And, yes, if I could change mathematica…

It's not just about non-programmers being insufficiently precise. It's also about the different ways they express precision compared to how you have to do it for existing programmi…

> The list of things they taught kids for the PacMan study also seemed very... well, technical. What list? Perhaps I'm just missing it or there's another link I haven't seen but th…

I've heard a few before: "hypothesis contrary to fact", "what if" fallacy, and "counterfactual fallacy". None of the names are really great and none of them seem to be particularly…

Where did I--or anyone--say it was different? Again, we're talking abstract, not current status quo. That said, there are key differences between a dentist or plumber and a waiter …

To an extent, at least, it's not so ridiculous as your "logical conclusion", at least not based on current US tipping etiquette. For one, 10% on $15786 is a little silly, sure. But…

You're the first one to say "only waiters"; savanaly certainly didn't. Their statement was clearly in the abstract and not an endorsement of the current tipping status quo.

A few explanations you can add for more-falsehoods.rst: > 15. Unix time is the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970. The section you quote from Wikipedia shows why this one is fals…

I do. I don't like small coins.

> It is disingenuous and/or ignorant to suggest that temporarily loading an email into memory for the purpose of displaying it on the users screen [...] I may be wrong, but I think…

I believe you're looking at the wrong part of the equation. It's not about the relative rates of traffic violations among the poor vs everyone else; it's about the relative impact …

> Schneier is discussing an unpleasant fact; unbiased algorithms often discover that things we previously attributed to bias were actually unbiased predictors. That's an interestin…

I'm not sure what you mean by "shenanigans". Erdős was legitimately a collaborator. Going by the article, Graham and Erdős worked together to try to tackle a similar problem but ne…

You likely mean something in the vein of The Theory of Everything or The Imitation Game rather than a straight documentary but just in case documentaries count: it's called N is a …

"In the best case the programmer and the company will both think they are getting a good deal" is not the same as "if both the programmer and the company both think they are gettin…

> Just because someone is offended doesn't mean they're right. I learned the last one the hard way after being a victim of emotional abuse for over a year, when the other party got…

There's a lot going on here and it's hard to properly talk about it all at once so I'm going to try to discuss some pieces and hope I don't lose an aggregate meaning in the process…