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Re:Economics of Minecraft by bufferoverflow on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:52AM (#16028797)
That's what happens when someone wants to look/sound smart, but actually isn't - lots of jargon, piled like spaghetti, impossible to follow.

Actual smart people are generally effective at explaining complex things succinctly and in simple terms.

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Re:Economics of Minecraft by andybak on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:31AM (#16029374)
A bit harsh. He might be busy rather than a charlatan.

I often err on the hand-wavey side when I don't have time to do the topic any justice. It was just a HN comment after all.

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Re:Economics of Minecraft by ansible on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:50AM (#16030014)
Yes. Though effective communication involves knowing who you are speaking too.

I have a mental model about the typical HN reader. So, for example, I would not bother explaining the term 'container' in the context of application deployment. Even for devops who don't use containers, just hanging around here providers plenty of exposure to that concept.

But in this case...

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Re:Economics of Minecraft by pavel_lishin on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:46PM (#16030678)
It sounds like a lot of it is social circles. It's hard to explain social circles without using internal shorthand.
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