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Ok, that list is awful, with all the ideological nonsense.

But besides that, for stuff that is actually empirically testable and relevant it would be nice to put them into a unit-testing library to automatically check certain functionality you build (for example to check functions that deal with time or dates or names).




The sociological "falsehoods" of this list ought to be renamed:

"Postulates I choose to consider as universal and objective truths as to silence any discussion or debate around them"

or

"List of opinions I have that are facts by virtue of being on this list"

Of course, you're wrong for disagreeing with OP.


The lists are cautionary tales, things to consider before you code. "May those who have never sinned ignore these posters, suggestions, and lists."


Ok, but I must be right about something? - "Nope, not if you disagree with me about the other thing"




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