What’s the practical application of this? It makes sense in chess where you have two players using the same rules, so a comparison makes sense. But is Postgres a better database than Redis? Is The Godfather a better film than Lord of the Rings? These questions make no sense. Political candidates can’t get an increased value simply for being less popular. So is the idea that you use this in a very technical space for,…
ELO Everything
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#52How could you ever choose?
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#53Ruiners of all good things incoming... It's cool, but dealing with bad-faith participants is what is really difficult about these types of exercises. It works great until the hurt people find it, and then the hurt people hurt people -- perpetuating their sadness unto others by upvoting the bad things.
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#54Ruiners of all good things incoming... It's cool, but dealing with bad-faith participants is what is really difficult about these types of exercises. It works great until the hurt people find it, and then the hurt people hurt people -- perpetuating their sadness unto others by upvoting the bad things.
within 15min of you posting this, hitler has become the #1 ranked thing on the leaderboard
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#56Ruiners of all good things incoming... It's cool, but dealing with bad-faith participants is what is really difficult about these types of exercises. It works great until the hurt people find it, and then the hurt people hurt people -- perpetuating their sadness unto others by upvoting the bad things.
Naah, it's simple things like these that are fun. Choosing Rice instead of Einstein was the highlight of my day.
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#57What’s the practical application of this? It makes sense in chess where you have two players using the same rules, so a comparison makes sense. But is Postgres a better database than Redis? Is The Godfather a better film than Lord of the Rings? These questions make no sense. Political candidates can’t get an increased value simply for being less popular. So is the idea that you use this in a very technical space for,…
I think it is supposed to be fun
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#58It's funny how Hitler is winning by a very large margin.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Naah, it's simple things like these that are fun. Choosing Rice instead of Einstein was the highlight of my day.
Golden State Warriors or Covid-19? Easy choice.