Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at...
by LanceH on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:40PM
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You don't win a metric.
Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at...
by gruez on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:09PM
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Maybe with a definition that you can only "win" a competition that was agreed upon ahead of time. However, a quick search on hn shows that "win" colloquially also can mean beating everyone else at some metric (or in some cases, on a subjective basis). eg.
"Chrome won" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14420972, despite the lack of an actual competition for internet browser market share
"Linux and open source have won, get over it" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23673867
"Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20527069
This is a non-sequitur. Whether or not that metric (popular vote) has a bearing on the results of presidential election is irrelevant to the statement of whether he won in that metric.
Furthermore, it's counter-productive to the discussion to preface a comment with a politically charged comment (trump and some of his supporters legitimately believes he got more popular vote than clinton, despite evidence to the contrary), then backpedal on that statement by adding a bunch of qualifiers.