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mturmon • today at 9:48 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Right. Somewhat similar to other dual-use words like “work”, “energy”, “power”, “momentum”.

With such “well, ackshually”s as “you didn’t really do any work at all when you were pushing on that tree trunk” and “you specified watts, but you really wanted to use lumens”.