Re:Don’t tell people to “Google it.” That’s your job, not th...
by renewiltord on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:42PM
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About the only things worth correcting are when the externalities of someone's incorrect opinion are significant. For instance, if someone mandated the ban of vaccines that's bad for us all.
But if someone not at my company thinks that the best tool to write a web application in is a hand rolled web server framework in C99 then it's advantageous to me to let him fuck those guys up.
About anything where loss is internalized properly to the party participating I think it's best to let that party kill themselves over it.
Unless, of course, they'll pay you lots of cash to tell them the truth.
The same behaviour is desirable for the opposite reason in your high-trust environments. There you don't produce citations. You are hinting at the direction of truth. The hint is way more important than the cite.
But if someone not at my company thinks that the best tool to write a web application in is a hand rolled web server framework in C99 then it's advantageous to me to let him fuck those guys up.
About anything where loss is internalized properly to the party participating I think it's best to let that party kill themselves over it.
Unless, of course, they'll pay you lots of cash to tell them the truth.
The same behaviour is desirable for the opposite reason in your high-trust environments. There you don't produce citations. You are hinting at the direction of truth. The hint is way more important than the cite.