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“We’re on the way to pinning this down,” ok, but that can be said about anything we haven't pinned down yet
by eruci 7y ago
“We’re on the way to pinning this down,” ok, but that can be said about anything we haven't pinned down yet
- posix_me_less 7y agoit's just a figure of speech, it means "we're working on it"
- foxyv 7y agoI think it's kinda like an intermittent bug in some application. You don't even know if it's an actual problem or just a user with a bad internet connection. That is, until you find out that it only happens after a period of inactivity. Suddenly you are "on the way to pinning this down." Instead of "Flailing madly in the dark with wild theories."
- stcredzero 7y agoI think it's kinda like an intermittent bug in some application. Like a "stable" civilization? Sometimes I wonder if clouds of autonomous self replicators, such as our planet and our civilization, aren't viewed as atavistic exponential pests by godlike alien beings who control the entire resources of a civilization in one entity.
- cjohansson 7y agoResearchers need funding so most of them will say this to make it meaningful to ”invest” in their project. I wouldn’t take such statements literally