kindofastrawman

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by kindofastrawman 6y ago
> The website you picked -- Berkshire Hathaway's -- is about as much of a "special case" website as exists on the internet. Only tautologically. > Also, you do realize the Berkshire Hathaway site's PDF's are e
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by kindofastrawman 6y ago
> Imagine if wikipedia would do that That's not the use case the blog post is addressing. It shouldn't be considered a mark against anyone if when applying their advice in a way that they never advocated then it turns out not
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by kindofastrawman 6y ago
This comment reads like person who has taken a special case (and even then one that only appears to contradict the "other side", even though it really doesn't)—something like having a 10-K in PDF format—and then constructs an
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by kindofastrawman 6y ago
> I gave a specific counter example of a type of regularly reviewed digital content that is beneficial to archive (in this case financial documents that may be necessary for tax purposes). How is that a counter example? If instead of PD
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by kindofastrawman 6y ago
> What a truly bizarre article. Not at all. It would be bizarre if the uses of PDF that the article is meant to address didn't exist, but they do. Just look at https://berkshirehathaway.com for one example. For a refer
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by kindofastrawman 6y ago
> JS is allowed to fetch new files dynamically, and there's no reliable way to look at a piece of code and automatically figure out what it's going to fetch when you run it. You've diverged from the context and are no long