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> Everybody knows that a statement such as the one the parent post made will have special case exceptions Thank you for reading with a spirit of intellectual g

> Everybody knows that a statement such as the one the parent post made will have special case exceptions Thank you for reading with a spirit of intellectual generosity. When I write posts like this I always wonder about how many qualifications and weasel words I should add just in case it makes Hacker News and the nitpickers come out in force. In this case I wrote things like "A strategy that is usually better is exponential growth" but still many of the comments are polite variations on "exponential isn't best in all circumstances, you idiot".

Someone 12y ago
Instead of weasel words, [RFC 2119] should be sufficient (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt) (Google also gave me http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6919 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6919, which I did not know about yet. The third month of the year often sees remarkable productivity, culminating in superb output in the beginning of the fourth month)