sharpened

It's old, and it was created and sharpened by old people with Unix smudges on their fingers.

It would be interesting if this could be sharpened into a testable prediction, in some kind of toy model.

Trust me a well sharpened remark, can be waaaaay more painful than a gut punch.

For example the nakiri knife is only sharpened on one side (the right hand side, away from the thing you are cutting).

So it's a bit like scissors -- perfectly flat on the left hand side and sharpened to 22 degrees on the right.

A lot less online bullying will happen and the poster's mind will be sharpened.

But other soft stainless with huge chromium carbides have gummy feel when sharpened.

One shop sharpened the axe before cutting, and it was felled on time.

If you send your knife in to the shop to be sharpened, it will basically be dull (or in transit) all of the time.

They are still literally hand-sharpened by old Japanese dudes in specialist workshops.

I foresee another French revolution if the rich keep this up I can hear the pitch forks already being sharpened.

A well-sharpened kitchen knife will cut through vegetables with barely more pressure than the weight of the blade, so unexpected forceful interactions are very rare.

Amusingly, the answer is very close to "yes";-) Western knives are often cast steel that are then shaped and sharpened.

This wasn't a Bible-thumper screaming "you're all going to hell!!!" It was the CEO of a very important Open Source project saying "Let's sit down and talk, I'm willing to put in the time and energy to work this out." But the torches had been lit, the pitchforks sharpened, and the rest is history.