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You had to name it Ganja, didn't you? Edit: on second thought, good for you! Screw all the politically correctness BS that invades our software development stu
by s1k3s 6y ago
You had to name it Ganja, didn't you?
Edit: on second thought, good for you! Screw all the politically correctness BS that invades our software development stuff. There's no place for that in science.
- iso8859-1 6y agoThere is lots of place for politics in science, universities have internal politics also. Ganja is the second largest city in Azerbaijan, why is it such a political statement?
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- throwaway2245 6y agoIt effectively makes the license "don't use this in an educational setting", unfortunately.
- lou1306 6y agoThen again, the substance it refers to is perfectly legal in several of countries (and a number of states in the US). By that metric, Wine should be avoided too.
- throwaway2245 6y agoI didn't give any metric. By yours, semen is perfectly legal in several countries (and a number of states in the US). That doesn't make it appropriate as a name in an educational setting. Or, "Today we are going to be using Wine" doesn't need quite so much careful disambiguation.
- dj_mc_merlin 6y ago> semen is perfectly legal in several countries (and a number of states in the US) Ah, yes, Illinois made semen illegal in 1923, as we all know. I now run around hiding from the cops.
- colejohnson66 6y agoCigarettes are legal in every state in the US, but naming something “cigarette.js” when it has nothing to do with them won’t help.
- jessaustin 6y agoWhat educational setting, primary school? Congratulations on your precocious children!
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- starmonger999 6y agoIt's pretty insensitive to the speakers of the language. In my mother tongue it's an insult.
- wishinghand 6y agoWhat language is that? And that issue appears for a number of words in a variety of different languages. While it’s not exactly a minefield matrix, is it really so bad that the makers of a thing don’t know how to check the meaning of their word in every language?
- starmonger999 6y agoUrdu/Hindi. So your basically excluding about 2 billion right off the bat. And as for your other point, it's not like the word just happened to be offensive, he deliberately sought out something he knew would be controversial.
- whalesalad 6y agoIt's not really political correctness as much as it is morality. We've been conditioned to believe marijuana is bad, unfortunately.
- nsajko 6y agoOn the one hand you're somewhat right: there are certainly many of those who fear marijuana with the only reason being that it is among "the drugs"; but is marijuana abuse not the greater issue of the two? Certainly you can agree that inhaling any smoke is bad for the lungs, for a start?
- whalesalad 6y agoYou can use marijuana/cannabis without smoke in a million different ways.
- otabdeveloper4 6y ago> We've been conditioned to believe marijuana is bad Well, you'll have a really hard time convincing people that it's good. (Unless they already have a vested interest in rationalizing their decisions.) Nobody ever got smarter from smoking too much weed.
- mtraven 6y agohttp://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/ http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/ Carl Sagan: Cannabis enables nonmusicians to know a little about what it is like to be a musician, and nonartists to grasp the joys of art. But I am neither an artist nor a musician. What about my own scientific work? ... I have made a conscious effort to think of a few particularly difficult current problems in my field when high. It works, at least to a degree. I find I can bring to bear, for example, a range of relevant experimental facts which appear to be mutually inconsistent.
- redisman 6y ago> Nobody ever got smarter from smoking too much weed. What about having fun or relaxing? Most recreational substances or activities aren’t supposed to “make you smarter”.
- throwawaysea 6y agoIt’s a clever joke because exterior algebra (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior_algebra https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior_algebra) is also knows as Grassman algebra, named after Hermann Grassmann (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Grassmann https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Grassmann)
- supplemonte 6y agoCommenters without a substantial or interesting contribution to make tend to focus on things like names.
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- joshuamcginnis 6y ago> Ganja is a Hindi name for hemp, derived from the word ganjha, from the Sanskrit gañjā, referring to a "powerful preparation from cannabis sativa". The term ganja, one of the oldest and most commonly used synonyms for marijuana in the English language, dates to before 1689. I had hoped there would be a more direct association between the Hindi name and the underlying mathematics given Indian mathematics emerged as early as 1200 BC. Would make for a perfect reverse-psychology alibi.
- jacobolus 6y agoIt's also the name of the second largest city in Azerbaijan. In high school, my school hosted some exchange students from "Ganja school #5". As we were standing at LAX airport waiting for the Azeri students to arrive, a couple of surfer dudes wearing board shorts and Hawaiian shirts walked by and stared at our sign: "Ganja school .... duuuuuude .... I wanna go there!"
- davchana 6y agoTo add, Ganja pronounced with very short sound of "a" means bald :) Ganja as hemp is mostly pronounced as Gaanjaa, but accepted spellings are Ganja.