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Comment by cle

2 months ago

Purists perpetually decry the zeitgeist's sloppy terminology.

Words that climb the Zipf curve get squeezed for maximum compression, even at the cost of technical correctness. Entropy > pedantry. Resisting it only Streisands the shorthand.

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