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Re:The workers behind Meta's smart glasses can see everything by umpalumpaaa on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @01:50AM (#47229019)
Isn’t “nothing is truly safe” a common saying on HN? Safe is an absolute term and since nothing can be safe people usually avoid using safe as a standalone attribution to something. It is usually qualified in some way.
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Re:The workers behind Meta's smart glasses can see everything by tomhow on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @02:07AM (#47229128)
> Safe is an absolute term

Safe is generally a gradable adjective [1], though can be non-gradable in certain contexts (like programming).

We are getting into the weeds though, aren't we?

[1] https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/b1-b2-gramma...

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Re:The workers behind Meta's smart glasses can see everything by umpalumpaaa on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @12:21PM (#47235609)
I was just curious. This “nothing is safe” is just burnt into my brain and simply wanted to know the reason because it sounded so far fetched that safe is not absolute. But I totally agree.
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