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Teever • today at 8:16 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

To me this subject is just a combo of bikeshedding[0] lumper and splitter[1] stuff by people who aren't domain subject experts.

I find people do this a lot with space stuff because they're interested in it but don't really know much about it.

It's ultimately irrelevant to the subject at hand and detracts from the conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters


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cwillu • today at 8:59 PM

And a spattering of domain subject experts being offended that they don't have veto power over colloquial terminology

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