victims” who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that’s technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they’re regular PCs and so they’re not always the most reliable.

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

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