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Re:Bitcoin app rejected by Apple by Natsu on Saturday May 07, 2011 @08:29PM (#2524953)
Nah, they'd do an analysis and say that it ends at exactly 1 cm away from the end of one's nose or whatever.

Then people would complain that it wasn't fair, because they intended to stop at 1 cm, but actually stopped at 0.99 cm and that should be close enough. And then someone would try to drag relativity into play and question what reference frame we should be measuring that 1 cm in and things would go downhill from there.

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Re:Bitcoin app rejected by Apple by shasta on Saturday May 07, 2011 @08:51PM (#2524983)
Right, because while you and I are able to see absurdity of that, these super intelligent geeks you have in mind wouldn't be able to.
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Re:Bitcoin app rejected by Apple by true_religion on Sunday May 08, 2011 @07:04AM (#2525693)
He's going with the "geeks are blind to common sense" fallacy.
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Re:Bitcoin app rejected by Apple by Natsu on Sunday May 08, 2011 @03:13PM (#2526516)
Actually, I'm going with "rules aren't precise because people disagree strongly over stupidly minor details so we have to abstract them to reach consensus."
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