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Brandolini's law in action.

It takes 10x more effort to refute BS than to generate it. Reviewing code is refuting. So is verifying the correctness of propositions. Generating propositions is easy, Refuting it requires proving the truth value or finding contradiction.

For maintainers of open source whose time is scarce, their energies are wasted needlessly, and I am all for conserving and directing energies productively.



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