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A comment on David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness. Parent comment

Re:David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness by dimal on Friday July 22, 2016 @06:21PM (#12147189)
It seems that disparaging JavaScript is sort of an HN Godwin's law. As an HN discussion grows longer, the probability of disparaging JavaScript approaches 1. Is it really necessary here?
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Re:David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness by afarrell on Friday July 22, 2016 @06:30PM (#12147236)
As an X discussion grows longer, the probability of mentioning Y approaches 1 for all values of X and Y.
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Re:David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness by dimal on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:11PM (#12147671)
True. I guess Godwin's law should be updated to take into account how long it takes to reach a probability of 1 for a given topic in a given context.
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