Not everyone learns programming and it happens often that skills learned in one domain don’t transfer into other domains.
Quite a lot of people care about whether or not someone is a feminist. The care about defining what true feminism is about. They treat the word like it’s important in itself and not just a pointer.
Law (especially private law) seems to be a better example of a domain where words themselves are very important, because it can hardly be any other way. For example, whether or not something qualifies as a breach of contract is important by itself.
Quite a lot of people care about whether or not someone is a feminist. The care about defining what true feminism is about. They treat the word like it’s important in itself and not just a pointer.
Not everyone learns programming and it happens often that skills learned in one domain don’t transfer into other domains.
Quite a lot of people care about whether or not someone is a feminist. The care about defining what true feminism is about. They treat the word like it’s important in itself and not just a pointer.
Law (especially private law) seems to be a better example of a domain where words themselves are very important, because it can hardly be any other way. For example, whether or not something qualifies as a breach of contract is important by itself.
On this site?
And they’re being silly.
Just like we have a few theists on LW we also have noncoders ;)