Ask HN: What is your most unpopular idea/belief?

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Post by enjayz » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 5:43 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What is your most unpopular idea/belief?

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Post by growlist » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 9:44 AM UTC

Pretty much all of us are massive hypocrites when it comes to Eugenics: it is a taboo subject when applied to populations, yet everyone apart from the insane is looking for a genetically fit partner.

Re: Ask HN: What is your most unpopular idea/belief?

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Post by Rainymood » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 9:45 AM UTC

(On average, in general) men and women are fundamentally and biologically different making some of them more inclined towards one field or the other.

Re: Ask HN: What is your most unpopular idea/belief?

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Post by theknarf » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 9:58 AM UTC

XML is a better format than JSON, and JSON is a better format than YAML.

Re: Ask HN: What is your most unpopular idea/belief?

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Post by NatW » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 10:27 AM UTC

theknarf wrote: post #4

XML is a better format than JSON, and JSON is a better format than YAML.

>XML is a better format than JSON.

That's quite absolutist - I can see why you see it as an unpopular idea. For me, the context where a tool is used is key.

XML is good if you have document-oriented data or want to use XML's namespacing.

I personally prefer JSON to XML in most other circumstances - which are most of them.

I happen to agree with you about YAML, but I don't think that's as controversal.

Re: Ask HN: What is your most unpopular idea/belief?

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Post by cdoxsey » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 10:27 AM UTC

Question 70: What is justification?

Answer: Justification is an act of God’s free grace unto sinners, in which he pardons all their sins, accepts and accounts their persons righteous in his sight; not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them, and received by faith alone.