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What's the word for maps? City map makers didn't want people to copy their hard work, so they'd add a short street or some other feature that doesn't actually

by jvm___ 3y ago

What's the word for maps? City map makers didn't want people to copy their hard work, so they'd add a short street or some other feature that doesn't actually exist in reality.

ceejayoz 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
nomilk 3y ago
> Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can tell when someone copies them. If another map has the same mistake, that's very convincing evidence. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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- mahathu 3y ago
  > What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good. What dog whistling drivel. That dude's trying so hard to use fancy words and walls of texts to defend his racist views without stating them outright. This is coming from a person who previously said: "One quality that's a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent. They must be clueless if they haven't gotten rid of their strong accent." Already going mask off in public and later doubling down on it in his blog. Just imagine what his views are in private if he goes to those lengths to try and fail to morally justify them.
  - edgyquant 3y ago
    “That dude,” is the owner of this website and not everything is bad or racist just because it goes against your view of the world. “Dog whistle,” give me a break.
  - sezycei 3y ago
    What's the source on that quote? I searched it and this thread is the only result. Edit: I found the context around it, at least. Seems perfectly reasonable. [1] "Recently Inc published an interview in which I said we'd noticed a correlation between founders having very strong foreign accents and their companies doing badly. Some interpreted this statement as xenophobic, or even racist—as if I'd said that having a foreign accent at all was a problem. But that's not what I said, or what I think. No one in Silicon Valley would think that. A lot of the most successful founders here speak with accents. The case I was talking about is when founders have accents so strong that people can't understand what they're saying. I.e. the problem is not the cultural signal accents send, but the practical difficulty of getting a startup off the ground when people can't understand you." [1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/accents.html http://www.paulgraham.com/accents.html
    - mahathu 3y ago
      https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/issie-lapowsky/how-paul-graham-became-successful.html https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/issie-lapowsky/how-paul-...
z3ugma 3y ago
"paper towns" ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry#Maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry#Maps

by jvm___ 3y ago

What's the word for maps? City map makers didn't want people to copy their hard work, so they'd add a short street or some other feature that doesn't actually exist in reality.

ceejayoz 3y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

nomilk 3y ago

> Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can tell when someone copies them. If another map has the same mistake, that's very convincing evidence. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

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mahathu 3y ago
> What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good. What dog whistling drivel. That dude's trying so hard to use fancy words and walls of texts to defend his racist views without stating them outright. This is coming from a person who previously said: "One quality that's a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent. They must be clueless if they haven't gotten rid of their strong accent." Already going mask off in public and later doubling down on it in his blog. Just imagine what his views are in private if he goes to those lengths to try and fail to morally justify them.
- edgyquant 3y ago
  “That dude,” is the owner of this website and not everything is bad or racist just because it goes against your view of the world. “Dog whistle,” give me a break.
- sezycei 3y ago
  What's the source on that quote? I searched it and this thread is the only result. Edit: I found the context around it, at least. Seems perfectly reasonable. [1] "Recently Inc published an interview in which I said we'd noticed a correlation between founders having very strong foreign accents and their companies doing badly. Some interpreted this statement as xenophobic, or even racist—as if I'd said that having a foreign accent at all was a problem. But that's not what I said, or what I think. No one in Silicon Valley would think that. A lot of the most successful founders here speak with accents. The case I was talking about is when founders have accents so strong that people can't understand what they're saying. I.e. the problem is not the cultural signal accents send, but the practical difficulty of getting a startup off the ground when people can't understand you." [1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/accents.html http://www.paulgraham.com/accents.html
  - mahathu 3y ago
    https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/issie-lapowsky/how-paul-graham-became-successful.html https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/issie-lapowsky/how-paul-...

z3ugma 3y ago

"paper towns" ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry#Maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry#Maps