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This is some epic semantic nitpicking right here. > Similarly, it is legitimate for others to publicly express market preferences for avoiding conferences that
by Goladus 11y ago
This is some epic semantic nitpicking right here.
> Similarly, it is legitimate for others to publicly express market preferences for avoiding conferences that feature him.
It is in the interests of any technical conference to discourage radical political agitators from using the conference as a political battleground, whether it's a "scientific" or "commercial" conference.
- tptacek 11y agoWhat commercial event wouldn't want to shield itself from the opinions of the market by claiming some amorphous "technical conference" status? I have no trouble understanding why De Goes prefers to frame the issue this way.
- Goladus 11y agoThe parent wrote this: I was not trying to imply that Lambdaconf is a scientific conference. My point was that in technical fields one's ability in the field is largely orthogonal to one's religious or political beliefs. You are thus actively ignore his central point.