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15 Post author: gwern 10 May 2011 03:46PM

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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 11 May 2011 02:48:11AM *  2 points [-]

and how incredibly frustrating [name withheld to protect the guilty] was with his obtuse misunderstandings of basic CS

We have that here, too. (It's probably less frequent here.) Sometimes the misunderstandings do not get downvoted or pointed out, sometimes they do, but the negative scores and replies do not prevent the person from continuing to go on copiously and with confidence about the subject he misunderstands.

Comment author: gwern 11 May 2011 03:11:29AM 1 point [-]

Well, inasmuch as we have that same person here, we have the same problem. (Downvoted heavily too; I haven't read the comments - about some inane looking problem about clock faces and the real number line - but given his past history I'm not inclined to be charitable.)

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 11 May 2011 03:31:54AM *  1 point [-]

He's not the only one although he might have been the latest one on the subject of CS.