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but isnt chromium open source?
by drstrangevibes 11y ago
but isnt chromium open source?
- rockdoe 11y agoThat unfortunately doesn't make it easy to see where those requests are coming from, especially given that the vast majority of Chrome(ium) developers are from Google.
- AdmiralAsshat 11y agoBeing open source doesn't mean the source code is easy or quick to read.
- brudgers 11y agoSure. But the theory that open source prevents problems of this sort is a theory, not a universal law. The solution is social and based on trust. https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
- 4ad 11y agoYou mean hypothesis, not theory.
- Karunamon 11y agoWorking theory: This is not a useful distinction in colloquial usage of english.
- 4ad 11y agoYes it is. Words have meaning, we would all benefit if we used them correctly.
- Karunamon 11y agoAnd language evolves, c.f. "literally".
- anonbanker 11y agoI just did a search for "working theory" in all the dictionaries I could find. None of them had it. Where did you get this phrase from?
- anonbanker 11y agoThis is my pet peeve, as well. People who conflate the two are stating ignorance of the scientific method.
- 4ad 11y agoYes, and it's not just usual ignorance, but they seem to be proud about their ignorance in a way that makes them behave irrationally and become offensive. For example how people downvote me in this thread, right now, although I got this treatment in many other venues, and in real life as well. And of course the "argument" that language changes doesn't hold water. They are not merely using different words, they are de-facto eliminating the word that describes a "theory". People who actually make scientific hypothesis and scientific theories use the word correctly, it's the ignorants who can't use it, and who quite often will utter phrases like "X is just a theory!", like somehow that should lessen X.
- anonbanker 11y agohonestly, I blame the phrase "conspiracy theory" and it's constant misuse for the fact that people conflate hypothesis and theory.
- 4ad 11y agoIntriguing. Never thought of that.
- rasz_pl 11y agoI remember looking into compiling Chromium >year ago, and it required 16GB ram minimum at the time ....