News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Brutalism is Back by taejavu on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:53PM (#12690127)
You clearly do not understand what objective means.

Edit: You're using objective for emphasis, in the same way people use the word "literally", when they don't really mean it literally. There is no "objectively" right or wrong when it comes to matters of opinion or taste, they're by definition subjective. I'm shocked I have to spell this out for you.

Re:Brutalism is Back by wtbob on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:23PM (#12690234)
> You clearly do not understand what objective means.

No, I'm saying that your taste is objectively wrong, 'in the same sense that someone who thinks Steve Buscemi is more handsome than George Clooney is objectively wrong.' He's simply not (which says, of course, nothing about his value as an actor or a man, just about his value as a model).

Tastes can be wrong. Brutalism is wrong; objectively wrong: it denies life and organic beauty (the only beauty that can exist, because we are living creatures). Some things are indeed matters of taste, but others are not. If one writes the number which consists of adding unity to unity as 2 or II or ٢ or २ or ꤂ or 𐒢 doesn't really matter, but if one writes it as PA͉I͓͍͇͜N̵ ̗̻̗p̴̻͙͚͇̳̹ͅa̦i҉̥̫̥͓n̖̭ ̼͕D̻̤̘̮̼̣͜E̴͇̦̟͚͚A̞͇T̴͎̮͔̣͔H̟̻ ̩̥͕̯͙̘D̶̳̞̘͇̠̳̦e̳̥̖̺̯̺s̤̰̬̺t́r̗̼̳u̲͉͎̩̱c̩̬̮̣̫̭͇͟ţ͉̝i̫̝o̗̞̫n̟̘̹̥̖ ̞̝P̪A͓̞͍̭ͅI͚̲̬͙Ṉ̫͉̥ then yes, one is wrong.

Re:Brutalism is Back by taejavu on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:29PM (#12690259)
You clearly do not understand what objective means.
Re:Brutalism is Back by saintzozo on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @06:36AM (#12691722)
He is clearly highly literate.

For a similar argument that doesn't make use of the word 'objective', see http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html