Donald Knuth was framed

Re:Donald Knuth was framed by bzbarsky on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:22PM (#22408601)

The argument as I've seen it presented was that a large part of the army was already moved up close to the border and in attack positions, and not set up for defensive operations. Which is why, the argument goes, there were so many soldiers to surround and cut off.

I'm not endorsing the argument, note; I haven't looked into this enough to have anything resembling a useful opinion.

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Re:Donald Knuth was framed by gdy on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @03:19AM (#22411627)

"I haven't looked into this enough"

And yet you rushed to disseminate it.

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Re:Donald Knuth was framed by bzbarsky on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:48AM (#22414688)

No, I commented why the counterargument given is not actually a counterargument against the thing it claims to be arguing about.

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Re:Donald Knuth was framed by gdy on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @01:30PM (#22415764)

Fair enough

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Re:Donald Knuth was framed by squiggleblaz on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:03AM (#22412824)

You have to rush to disseminate it. If you don't, the topic drops off the front page and eventually it gets locked. Hacker News has many pros, but it doesn't exactly facilitate slow, careful and thorough discussion. (Old fashioned mailing lists might've I guess, but I'm not aware of any contemporary platforms that do.)

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Re:Donald Knuth was framed by vl on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:56PM (#22419592)

This is absolutely funny how balanced unopinionated comment providing additional information gets downvoted. If this is not monoculture then I don’t know what is.

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