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Encyclopedia of things considered harmful (cat-v.org)
1 point by pizza on Sept 23, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Can we add this encyclopedia to itself? It's a small compendium of right-wing ideology and quirky preferences.

The two categories of things considered harmful in "Science": "Economics", and "Global Warming Fearmongering". The Eco section, which quotes Milton Friedman as an imagined authority, has just a few entries -- for Rent Controls, Minimum Wages, Intellectual Property, a couple of others. In Software, a long list of "harmful" things with allegedly less harmful alternatives, all of it personal choice (editors & IDEs, again?) and the stuff of eternal flame wars. Thus, SQL databases are 'harmful', but "plain old hierarchical filesystems" are less so -- and so much more fun to query too; SVG bad, PostScript better (really?!); ... You get the idea.


yeah most of this is actually shit; but the value of knowing someone else values it is greater to me personally than the value it is to me personally.


by all means




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