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That's probably not enough information to derive an accurate description of what the company is trying to do, so there's a good chance he's dismissing a straw man.

As a scientist, shouldn't he be all about trying to understand things as opposed to dismissing them outright?

Unfortunately, that care was not taken in this case, and of course, you see opponents dismissing the data.

Wanting to solve every problem and dismissing solutions that don't fit constraints is not an autistic behavior.

Playing fast and loose and dismissing concerns of large-scale installed bases is not a strategy, it's either ignorance or hubris.

Would be nice to see evidence of this behavior before outright dismissing raising taxes.

Yes, and that freedom is being guaranteed to fewer and fewer end users of GPLed software because of those feelings you're dismissing.

You're arguing over a principle while dismissing the real harm people have suffered.

And, dismissing her feelings is an invalid reaction - they are her feelings.

I've ran training sessions for internal enterprise software and the users literally could not remember there was a dialog mere seconds after dismissing it.

I'm confused: is the executive dismissing outsourced work as crap, or is he advocating outsourcing because the entire floor of NYC programmers' work is crap?

Perhaps a different business culture: Staff are given a record of their employment history, and companies have to follow strict rules when dismissing employees: * Fired is a big negative.

Reminds me of the quip: "Dismissing a graphic artist's work because it was computer-generated is like dismissing Michaelangelo's work because it was brush-generated."

Dismissing such criticisms with "It works for me," "If you don't like it, don't use it," or "Who cares about X?

I find that a sometimes simple questions like this can turn into people calling me a SJW (then dismissing everything I ever say), "your the racist for accusing me of being racist", people thinking that I'm being mean to them, etc.

Bucketing people off as "rational people" and "worthy contributors" because they disagree with your beliefs is an unfortunate way of dismissing conversation, probably something that you dislike when people that oppose your beliefs do it.

Dismissing someone's idea because theyre an ex-convict is a good example.

Dismissing a piece of data because it goes against your global-warming religious beliefs is your right.

Dismissing them as unimportant misses a huge part of humanity, and of freedom itself.