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Re:Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro by chris_wot on Saturday August 18, 2012 @08:21AM (#4400950)
There's nothing quite like reading a post with the words de gustibus non est disputandum while the poster debates matters of taste.
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Re:Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro by gbog on Saturday August 18, 2012 @09:18AM (#4401050)
Right, but you may be aware that Friedrich Nietzsche would have said all discussions are about taste.
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Re:Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro by its_so_on on Saturday August 18, 2012 @01:14PM (#4401632)
as just a reader on this thread, am I being asked to judge whether Nietzsche trumps a Latin proverb?

This is a hard one, and I would need some more evidence. Don't you have a steve jobs quote?

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Re:Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro by gbog on Saturday August 18, 2012 @09:11PM (#4402871)
I think Nietzsche meant that either you are talking about objective known facts and there is no discussion, facts just are (or not); or, in the most common case, you are talking about subjective ideas, feelings, opinions, etc, and these are just other names for taste.

So both are right, we should not be discussing taste and we are deemed to only discuss about taste.

I'll let some other HNmate complement with a Steve Jobs quote, if they wish.

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