David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war

Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by majewsky on Monday June 12, 2017 @03:24AM (#14535628)

It shows that the author is not willing to invest a few minutes to fact-check this particular assertion that they're putting in the article. After something like this, one cannot stop wondering how many more assertions in this article are false.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by DanBC on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:21AM (#14535987)

But you should be assuming that all articles you read are full of errors.

You spotted this error because you know the difference between Java and Javascript. But what about the stuff that you don't know? How do you spot those errors?

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by majewsky on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:47AM (#14536073)

Easy: I can't. This effect is known as Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by rounce on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:33AM (#14536021)

I look things up that I don't know. Right click -> Search for '<term>'.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by factotvm on Monday June 12, 2017 @09:46AM (#14537304)

That they're putting in the first sentence.

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