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... in the usual pedantry of HN your use of "poor" was interpreted to mean socio-economic, rather than... "just bad at something"...
by jjkaczor 6y ago
... in the usual pedantry of HN your use of "poor" was interpreted to mean socio-economic, rather than... "just bad at something"...
- duxup 6y agoOh I see. That's, weird, but thanks for letting me know.
- Someone 6y agoI don’t see how one could parse ”On the other hand users are generally pretty poor at managing software themselves” and assign that interpretation to “poor”.
- duxup 6y agoI agree, but the user who responded to me seemed to talk about demographics as if I had meant "poor" as in not having much money. The internet is global, sometimes I think things get lost in translation.
- CaptArmchair 6y agoThat's a reductionist reading of my comment. I'm challenging your initial assertion that "people are poor at managing software". That's not enough of an explanation to support the second part of your claim: > and as long as it works they'll happily and probably ignorantly run something that is not secure already and needs an update. Are they poor at managing software because they are ignorantly running insecure software? Or are they ignorantly running insecure software because they are poor at managing software? The replies so far take the entire context out of the picture and reframes the issue to "Users use their devices the 'wrong way'." and this can only be solved through technological advances. I'm here questioning and challenging those assertions.