whopper

Now that's a whopper of a strawman argument. I'm impressed.

Just like the feedback to McDonald's when you buy a whopper is that you didn't buy a BigMac.

The city will wind up paying a whopper of an un-disclosed settlement, and nothing will change.

That's quite a whopper. Instead of buying your congressman dinner, how about hiring his son or nephew for a "job?"

Hey HN, this was my first art installation and boy was it a whopper. Used by tens of thousands of people in 8 days, it had 40 hand-made pulse sensors, 200 high current LEDs, and 40 5 meter LED strips.

The final whopper is plankton always do the opposite of profitable. So after a major drop, they sell, after a major rise, they buy.

It would most definitely prevent you from quietly enjoying your whopper. So the obvious response is to twit _everything_ in hopes of teaching them a lesson?

For example, when the author is going to basically attempt a kind of whopper, they will admit that there are some failing to the argument. The rhetorical tic for Greenblatt is to write: "To be sure .

The idea that you don't need tutorials because of the type system is absurd, another whopper along the same lines as Haskell programs being bug-free. If nothing else, you may need a tutorial to learn to use the complex type system.

Also, for a post that includes 15 footnotes, one whopper of a claim goes without support: "Bitcoin is not meant to be an investment its meant to be a currency." Sweeping claims about what Bitcoin or currencies are "meant to be" need more support and careful definition.