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"Some skeptics said that this other, completely unrelated kind of project couldn't be funded using this model several decades ago, and they were wrong." isn't a
by fouric 5y ago
"Some skeptics said that this other, completely unrelated kind of project couldn't be funded using this model several decades ago, and they were wrong." isn't a compelling argument.
The GP post actually pointed out several differences between journalism and programming language development, and they seem pretty important to me - so unless you actually address those points, it seems safe to assume that you're comparing apples to oranges.
- WalterBright 5y agoFor one thing, aspiring journalists would want to contribute to it to "build their brand". This motivates lots of contributors to Open Source, Wikipedia, and Stackoverflow. There are many tells for fake news. One, for example, is citing anonymous sources. Another is inventing a trend out of a single data point. One tell I use is when the journalist uses hyperbolic words, and clearly opinionated words like "bad". > isn't a compelling argument. Of course. Until somebody does it anyway. My entire career is based off of doing things everyone told me would never work.