eeghyrdcg

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   by eeghyrdcg 3y ago

   I don’t think I’m missing anything. You’re just saying “I prefer prescriptivism. Mine.”
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   by eeghyrdcg 3y ago

   Maybe. A lot of people will truly believe Sierra Club to be “left” without understanding what that (used to?) mean. A descriptivist would say maybe that suggests the words’ meanings have changed. If everyone is ignorantly incorrect maybe
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   by eeghyrdcg 3y ago

   In my experience in the US people use “left”, “liberal”, “socialist” etc synonymously (and mostly pejoratively). Same for “right”, “conservative”, etc.
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   by eeghyrdcg 3y ago

   Indeed. I can’t imagine doing native desktop development unless it was absolutely required for my project, and then I’d ask myself if maybe I shouldn’t just work on something else. All that work and it runs on one OS.
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   by eeghyrdcg 3y ago

   I think calling it scamming is incorrect. They are competing — successfully!
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   by eeghyrdcg 3y ago

   I don’t know, all the comments in that thread seem to think the story is bullshit. So I don’t think I’m too swayed.
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   by eeghyrdcg 3y ago

   It kind of sounds like you’re saying “as a representative sample of people in the US”. If this is the case you are wrong — plenty of people use these services. If you’re just saying “you” then sure whatever, I put salsa on my toast.
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   by eeghyrdcg 3y ago

   You linked the wrong comment. I should like to read the right one.