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  1. Oct 2024
    1. I shall try to give the ChiefFaults in Composition. The reader will see that thelist is long : and that, if he merely tries to write wholeEssays all at one 'sitting', he is little likely to escapethem all.S

      Attempting to escape the huge list of potential "Chief faults in composition" is a solid reason not to try to cram a paper or essay in a single night/day.

  2. Jul 2023
    1. capitalist economics is notoriously bad at considering non-human beings and it's also notoriously bad at considering 00:10:56 the future Beyond a certain amount of time
      • for: capitalism faults
        • bad at considering the long term future
        • bad at considering other species
  3. Nov 2021
    1. Calling a software convention "pretty 90s" somewhat undermines your position. Quite a lot of well-designed software components are older than that. If something is problematic, it would be more useful to argue its faults. When someone cites age to justify change, I usually find that they're inexperienced and don't fully understand the issues or how their proposed change would impact other people.
  4. Nov 2017
    1. however, did not take into account thepotential influence of the magmato-tectonic interactions on thefault growth, whereas all the faults are located in a highly volcaniccontext. Indeed, the influence of magma bodies on the fault activityhas been observed both at short and long time scales in Afar, and inother extensional regions (Mastin and Pollard, 1988; Rubin andPollard, 1988; Rubin, 1992; Gudmundsson, 2003; Gudmundssonand Loetveit, 2005; Doubre et al., 2007; Doubre and Peltzer,2007; Calais et al., 2008; Biggs et al., 2009; Medynski et al., 2013,2016).

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  5. Oct 2013
    1. Four faults of prose style, with illustrative examples: (1) misuse of compound words; (2) employment of strange words; (3) long, unseasonable, or frequent epithets; (4) inappropriate metaphors.