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This is not crypto news, but cryptocurrency news.
by nijaru 9y ago
This is not crypto news, but cryptocurrency news.
- phoneboy 9y agoI'd like to see other terms as well, incl. distributed ledger stuff.
- colecut 9y agoIn a world where 'literally' can be defined as 'figuratively', I'm not sure why we bother splitting hairs on terminology... what is accepted is what is accepted.
- dingaling 9y ago> what is accepted is what is accepted Is it accepted? I would agree only when it appears in the NYT or The Economist with its 'new' meaning. It's a subset of lazy people in tech who are abusing 'crypto' at this point in time, not Valley Girls. There's an inflection point here to interdict the abuse, before it gains mass-usage.
- colecut 9y agoI see it as hopelessly yelling at kids to stop walking on your lawn
- topbarcolor 9y agoWhat is actually happening is that someone tells other people on the lawn that they wish kids wouldn't walk (and poop) on it, and then some of those other people play kiddo advocate and yell at that person. The kids are aren't providing any active resistance at all compared to that.
- colecut 9y agoI guess I don't see the "pooping" part, I just see them shortening a long word they happen to be using. Also, the headline clearly says cryptocurrency, it seems to be the domain name he is complaining about. Sorry, I don't agree with adding 8 letters to a url to make a very small segment of people (who are apparently not the target audience) happy.
- optimuspaul 9y agoI don't accept crypto to mean cryptocurrency. It's like saying butter when you mean butterscotch. Doesn't mean the same thing and shouldn't.
- always_good 9y agoUnfortunately, the world could care less about what you personally accept.
- pilaf 9y ago> could care less Bait?
- andai 9y agoMay be referencing https://xkcd.com/1576/ https://xkcd.com/1576/
- 0x4f3759df 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=854042 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=854042
- topbarcolor 9y agoAnd vice versa. Though actually, I can care less than I care about "what the world accepts", for example about some person speaking for the world. If you accept it, make your case; if you don't, leave "the world" out of it.
- colecut 9y ago99% of the population would have never uttered the word "cryptography" before "cryptocurrencies" started to catch on. In either case, crypto is an abbreviation.
- criddell 9y ago
- topbarcolor 9y agoAnything is "accepted" (by someone, somewhere). That gives us no Information. FWIW, what is rejected is what is rejected, and I reject this abuse of language.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoThis isn't the world. This is Hacker News, which is full of people who know what crypto is and know what cryptocurrency is and can expect each other to do better than ambiguity.
- colecut 9y agoThe title of this article on hacker news is "a cryptocurrency news scraper"
- baby 9y agoBut it is not accepted. You have people in every cryptocurrency thread reminding people that www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com
- nategri 9y agothis is called linguistic prescriptivism and its wrong
- vinceguidry 9y agoCalling out linguistic prescriptivism is almost as bad a social faux pas as the linguistic prescriptivism itself.
- homonculus1 9y agoIMO it's far more misguided. We can push for precise and efficient language, or we can shrug our shoulders and let the lowest common denominator strip out all nuance.
- vinceguidry 9y agoI was cured of that particular delusion when I realized that language has literally always been attacked since the day it was created.
- howiem 9y agoSorry if I confused anyone, didn’t mean to start a flame war. It was just the first domain I found that was available, I didn’t think too much about it