ersatz

People ended up mixing legal, weak beer with hard liquor to make an ersatz strong beer.

But why would I want to read and write ersatz Java, or ersatz Ruby, when I could use the real thing?

The macbook is almost dismissed as an ersatz of linux desktop.

People compensate for this with ersatz things like getting louder, or getting jokier.

The dotcom bubble produced a lot of ersatz culture that matched its mostly ersatz startups.

If the OP's argument is true, Gladwell is sharing ersatz knowledge and distorting reality.

The green "IE" logo is an attack vector that is completely consistent with the ersatz nature of all computing in China.

You end up with ersatz abstractions that don't stand up to interrogation - things that take the form of something precise, but aren't precise.

Haha, I guess I do have a way of popping up anytime somebody's talking about deep learning on the internet...But yeah, fair points re: ersatz.

There is an ersatz logical log in the form of application logs, and these have been used to piece together transactional information before.

I know several people who friend news sources and bloggers and use Fb as an ersatz RSS feed, mitigating the death-by-cat-pictures eventuality.

When you aren't simulating anything, OO is cumbersome because it requires you to name and reify concepts that become "things" in your mind; these ersatz "things" continually draw attention to themselves and get between you and the problem.

The Committee directs the FBI, in consultation with the Department and other Federal partners, to provide a briefing no later 120 days after the enactment of this Act on the nature and scale of the risk posed by such ersatz currency, both in financing illegal enterprises and in undermining financial institutions.