inoculation

Though no one has been found to have the disease in Israel, it's because of their high inoculation rate.

Or if some women like that culture and thrive in it, is that considered inoculation against charges of sexism?

Not as significant as other problems that can be cured - inoculation, diet, safe water etc.

Think of it as inoculation: if a child is sheltered completely, it doesn't know how to deal with these things when it is eventually exposed to them in the real world.

I read the book, and was struck by how effective it is as an inoculation against fundamentalist libertarianism.

Having and keeping goals is a great inoculation against that sort of thing.

And these milder cousins serve as a natural inoculation against the nastier versions.

Probably because there is a 2/256 chance of getting sent the inoculation value.

P inoculation, and was satisfied with their explanation that they had to keep plenty of non-expired medicines on hand for everything, including unexpected events.

An enhanced focus on rationality, critical thinking, skepticism, rejection of magical thinking -- all these things will build inoculation against these particular shitty ideas.

Fortunately, inoculation still mostly works, with only a few exceptions (like HIV).

It keeps me fresh, which seems to be an inoculation to what I see as the number one career killer: stagnation.

The "advertising inoculation" mentioned in the article is an example of this.

Sure it can - think of smallpox: the first smallpox "vaccine" was actually inoculation with cowpox - a similar, but less virulent virus.

Or it was done once, and the "inoculation" byte came first.

And as far as under-specifying versus over-specifying, I find that understanding the domain problem is better inoculation against horribly written code than understanding "inefficient" boolean branching.

'On Immunity: An Inoculation' by Eula Biss 34.