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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Friday April 12, 2019 @10:21PM (#19650692)
The fallacy is to assume, without evidence, that the slope is slippery. There are plenty of slopes that aren't. Probably most, just you don't think about those because you know they aren't slippery already.

For example, I slept in 'til 8:30 today. OMG, a slippery slope. Next thing you know, I'll be sleeping until 3PM. Til midnight! I will never wake up again. But as it happens, sleeping in isn't a slippery slope. I don't think there's any solid evidence that telemetry is either.

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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by iopq on Friday April 12, 2019 @10:45PM (#19650795)
Umm, it's slippery for me. I haven't had a stable sleeping schedule for over ten years. Send help.
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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by sitkack on Friday April 12, 2019 @10:38PM (#19650770)
This is exactly why I get up a minute earlier each day. As it is, I am waking up tomorrow at 4:39 AM. Mission accomplished.
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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by TimTheTinker on Saturday April 13, 2019 @02:21AM (#19651400)
(10 years into one possible future)

“... and that was me before we had children.”

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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by colordrops on Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:11PM (#19656369)
That's the "hasty counterexample" fallacy.
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