Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal
by hyperpape on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:37PM
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There are two points I'd make:
1) Maybe yes. If the practices are really bad, it could be surprising that they're widespread and that people don't see a problem.
2) In general, when someone is pointing out something bad, saying "you're surprised?!" is counter-productive. You don't have to be surprised to call something out (I'm not surprised anymore how much our government spies on us, but it seems bad).
Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal
by xixi77 on Thursday December 31, 2015 @07:45AM
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He writes it as if he is suggesting that 99% reliability is just bad, period. If his point was to say that 99% is bad in this specific use case, he should have made that more clear.
1) Maybe yes. If the practices are really bad, it could be surprising that they're widespread and that people don't see a problem.
2) In general, when someone is pointing out something bad, saying "you're surprised?!" is counter-productive. You don't have to be surprised to call something out (I'm not surprised anymore how much our government spies on us, but it seems bad).