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Various notes on /usr unification

Posted Feb 29, 2012 22:56 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Various notes on /usr unification by jond
Parent article: Various notes on /usr unification

Please explain the meaning of "motion to retire" and "due for retirement".

One of the easiest ways to troll: fight exaggeration with exaggeration. Sorry I fed it.

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Posted Mar 1, 2012 18:12 UTC (Thu) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]

I actually forgot to suggest accusations of trolling, along with "correlation does not imply causation" and "the plural of anecdote is not data". Of course such terms and phrases describe actual phenomena, but they also seem to take the role of the panic button in any discussion.