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    1. Hillel‏ @hillelogram Jan 19
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      When talking about static types you can't just take the union of all the best features in all type systems. Like if one gives you A but not B and another B but not A, you can't say static typing gives you A and B. You're going to write your code in just one of them!

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    2. Hillel‏ @hillelogram Jan 19
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      The article I'm subtweeting did NOT make this mistake, and was up-front about this limitation. But that article caused internet fights, and the commenters in THOSE made that mistake. (the other big mistake people made was "commenting without reading the essay.")

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    3. Dan Luu‏ @danluu Jan 20
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      Replying to @hillelogram

      What % of commenters do you think read posts before commenting? From reading comments threads that are mis-titled, where everyone is commenting on something unrelated to the actual post, I think it's under 1%. I wouldn't be shocked if it's under 0.1%, but I suspect it's over.

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    4. Dan Luu‏ @danluu Jan 20
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      By "read" I mean "at least skimmed to the bottom", if we're talking about people who really read the thing in detail, then I'd guess well under 0.1%. I've been thinking about this in the context of content people have a hard time with.

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    5. Dan Luu‏ @danluu Jan 20
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      Like, if you read an ask.metafilter question with an AND, you the questioner is probably screwed. 95%-100% of the commenters will drop half of the question and give an answer that's irrelevant. With XOR there's no chance, 100% of answers will be irrelevant virtually all the time.

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    6. Dan Luu‏ @danluu Jan 20
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      In the context of blogs, people who write posts with structured arguments (e.g., Ben Kuhn, Jeff Kauffman) almost exclusively get "bad" comments since a reasonable comment would require reading something more complex than a sentence with an AND or XOR, which is already impossible?

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    7. Dan Luu‏ @danluu Jan 20
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      But for posts like PG's recent post or other widely read thought leader-y posts, comments actually seem better? What can you say to "haters are generally losers"? The posts are basically a series of rorschach tests, people can pick out any phrase and respond with their feelings.

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      Dan Luu‏ @danluu Jan 20
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      But when people respond in the same way to a post by Jeff Kauffman, it's very obvious that the comment is a poor quality comment by someone who didn't read the post. Maybe this is too facile? But I think it explains why some bloggers I read get so many obviously bad comments?

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        2. Marc Brooker‏ @MarcJBrooker Jan 20
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          Mostly when I see a paper I'd like to read, especially if it's something that needs real attention, I'll not get to it for weeks or months. By then there's no point in going back to an HN or Reddit thread. Generating insightful comments takes time.

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        3. Marc Brooker‏ @MarcJBrooker Jan 20
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          At least for me. It's a big part of why I started blogging: I wanted to write about things without the time-based incentive to write shallow impressions.

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