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Re:AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just ... by tptacek on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:44PM (#16996542)
Instructive in the sense that for any given technical controversy on HN, there will be a couple people that have some connection to the topic and can speak with some justified confidence about it, and several hundred people who read the title and, if we're lucky, the lede graf of the story and then just write stream of consciousness extrapolations --- also, instructive to note that HN does not, ceteris paribus, do a good job of upvoting the authoritative comments over the superficial riffing.
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Re:AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just ... by throwaway41441 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:48PM (#17003165)
> lede graf

Journalistic jargon for "lead paragraph"

https://underthecurve.github.io/jekyll/update/2016/12/29/hed...

> ceteris paribus

"all other things being equal"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceteris_paribus

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Re:AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just ... by brownbat on Saturday May 05, 2018 @10:47PM (#17005015)
> HN does not, ceteris paribus, do a good job of upvoting the authoritative comments over the superficial riffing.

Top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16982493

Seems... fine? Our comments were useful enough for Ars to apparently base their entire reporting on them. (Ok, mixed feelings there...)

Or, wait, are you saying Prince's reaction was the useful, authoritative one in this example?

Most commenters thought he was making a bit of a leap. Is that what you're actually pushing back on?

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Re:AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just ... by berg01 on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:24PM (#16996955)
> ceteris paribus

I enjoy googling a new phrase as much as the next person... but really?

From WP: Ceteris paribus or caeteris paribus is a Latin phrase meaning "other things equal". English translations of the phrase include "all other things being equal" or "other things held constant" or "all else unchanged".

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