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Sayre's law
- horsecaptin 11y agoNot all laws are created equal.
- danieltillett 11y agoHaving had to deal with Sayre's law in practice, the cause is not insignificance, but that most of the time this is the only thing you can actual fight about. In a university the average academic has no control over anything of importance, so the only thing you can fight about is trivia.
- bjshepard 11y agoAnother relevant entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
- d--b 11y agoI'm sure this law has been a source of heated debate.
- lamby 11y agoIronically, the Talk page is rather sparse...
- OliverJones 11y agoChurch denominational politics too.
- talideon 11y agoI guess it's worth mentioning Parkinson's law of triviality here, given it's relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality
- toolslive 11y agoaha! a generalisation of Wadler's law: https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler's_Law https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler's_Law
- DonaldFisk 11y agoThe Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2003/ling538/Lecnotes/ADfn1.htm http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2003/ling538/Lecnot...