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0 pointssokoloff1mo ago0 comments

Most people on this site are also familiar with the “XKCD 10000”.

(Amusingly, it even uses “30 years” as the timeframe.)

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jere1mo ago· 2 in thread

Classic of course. The point being: don't make fun of people for not knowing something. In this thread we're making fun of learned helplessness.

ruszki1mo ago

You are making fun of people who are saying that this article is shit, without addressing that part at all.

consider 2 conversations

"hey what X means?" "X means it"

"I dont know what CTF stands for so I dont know if I am interested in this article or learning anything about it. Maybe I am.

Are you really arguing for not just typing out whatever 3 words this stands for once in the name of clarity?"

The commenter could just say the first instead of deciding his learned helplessness is everyone's else problem

More acronyms?? What the heck is an XKCD??? ;)

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