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- Aug 2020
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meta.stackexchange.com meta.stackexchange.com
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Can't upvote this enough. It is highly irritating to see language destroyed (and we wonder why kids bastardize the language..).
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- combating widespread incorrectness/misconception by consistently doing it correctly
- example of: using incorrect terms
- hoping/trying to convince others that your view/opinion/way is right by consistently sticking to it despite many being ignorant/mistaken/unaware/holding different opinion
- even if majority makes a mistake; it doesn't make it correct
- correctness
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- May 2020
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Liu, L., Wang, X., Tang, S., & Zheng, Z. (2020). Complex social contagion induces bistability on multiplex networks. ArXiv:2005.00664 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00664
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- Apr 2020
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www.techrepublic.com www.techrepublic.com
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there's no reasonable way to communicate effectively with the less technically minded without acquiescing to the nontechnical misuse of the term "hacker"
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The more easily relabeled of the two uses of the term "hacker" is the malicious security cracker: it is not only the more recent phenomenon to acquire that label, but also the one whose meaning is most easily evoked by an alternative term. This is why, when you read an article of mine that talks about malicious security crackers, I use the term "malicious security cracker"
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- language: misuse of word
- acquiescing/giving in
- alternative to mainstream way
- communication
- "hacker" vs. "cracker"
- language
- popular misconceptions
- hoping/trying to convince others that your view/opinion/way is right by consistently sticking to it despite many being ignorant/mistaken/unaware/holding different opinion
- communicating with less technical people
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- May 2017
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We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.
Not true! Well below the average.
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