fallacy

You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing!

The whole "look how fast Node is due to all my hand-rolled callbacks" is a total fallacy. It's a case of taking perverse pride in an accidental wart of your language.

That's the sunk cost fallacy talking. If you spend $10 on a domain name, you have $10 less with which to buy exposure to Google shares, bitcoins, yen, tulip bulbs, or Magic the Gathering cards.

Here, you are committing an actual logical fallacy. It's called "shifting the goalposts."

You are attempting to make the logical fallacy of arguing from authority. Hacker news is smart enough to see through this.

It's called the "base rate fallacy." Suppose you have a test that's 90% accurate in identifying both sociopaths and non-sociopaths.

If anything, the paper was just an application of the texas sharpshooter fallacy. I believe the authors made several models, and then included the one in the paper that showed the result they wanted.

Sarcasm aside, this demonstrates a fallacy in reasoning. > If Go actually manages to be as effective as Java for concurrent programming at some point in the future It isn't more effective now?

Epic: "But the chain of logic from 'Linux is about choice' to 'ship everything and let the user chose how they want their sound to not work' starts with fallacy and ends with disaster."

Is this a fallacy? It seems that the speaker is clearly being satirical, especially given that he prefaces his speech with " On the contrary, I will take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it might be."

2000 words of post-hoc fallacy about an IRC channel. We're discussing here a group of people who started their careers dead smack in the middle of the dot-com bubble, practically all of them in software/network security, a field that has stayed valuable since its inception.

He's being victimized by a pernicious fallacy. It certainly appears that the most "successful" cryptosystems have transparent keying.

This also commits the logical fallacy of ascribing superpowers to the bad guys cooking up viruses while assuming the good guys are sitting on their duffs letting bad things happen. H5N1 was a pretty good example of international collaboration.

But too often, you see people acting like every discussion is high-school debate-club practice, and they start slinging "ad hominem" and "fallacy of the excluded middle" around like a high-school kid with a brand new super-soaker, eager to spray anyone in range. But not everything that is said here needs to be treated like it was uttered as part of a debate.

Upon reading an article on LW entitled "Humans are not automatically strategic", which was a reply to a Sebastian Marshall article "A failure to evaluate return on time fallacy", I had an epiphany that being systematic about things was the route to accomplishing great things." Rationalists should win", the LW meme goes, and it's correct.

I could see this argument--idealistic to the point of fallacy though it is--presented at other venues. However, those who frequent Hacker News should know that these people will find talented others who are capable of dealing with their social immaturity and will end up co-founding their own company and, unencumbered by the enforced social niceties of this fictional society, may very well end up becoming a dominant player and returning to the status quo.

Fallacy falls to its knees with this paragraph.