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> Such software can allow landlords to collude on pricing by using an algorithm—something the law doesn’t allow IRL. When you replace once-independent pricing d
by usui 3y ago
> Such software can allow landlords to collude on pricing by using an algorithm—something the law doesn’t allow IRL. When you replace once-independent pricing decisions with a shared algorithm, expect trouble.
There are probably other things I should comment on first instead, but this usage of “IRL” made me laugh. I grew up with the initialism IRL while chatting online as a small kid so when I emailed a teacher where I accidentally wrote “IRL”, he quipped, “What? As opposed to us meeting ‘in fake life’?”
Now I feel jokingly vindicated against Mr. Teacher as this is the first time I read a government website use IRL. It would seem that algorithms and cyberspace aren’t part of real life to the government, even when it’s about housing price collusion, one of the realest real-life things I can imagine!
- SilasX 3y agoHaha yeah that’s often what happens, a useful slang expression becomes so widespread that eventually they accept it in formal context. I joke that, given enough time, the “English future tense” they teach will be “to be gonna”.
- aaomidi 3y agoLanguage evolution is honestly great. There's a lot of pearl clutching that happens about it, and policing around what's "ok" English or whatever. But yeah, evolution of language is beautiful IMHO.
- SilasX 3y agoAlways?
- trimethylpurine 3y ago>IMHO As opposed to your dishonest opinion?
- trimethylpurine 3y agoI'm sad that you took offense and downvoted. I guess you didn't read the first comment? It was meant as a joke on the absurdity of asking what it's opposed to. >I accidentally wrote “IRL”, he quipped, “What? As opposed to us meeting ‘in fake life’?”
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- __s 3y agoTBF the usage is not saying it's legal online. They're saying the loophole is imaginary, existing in the minds of the colluders