stephencanon 12 years ago

Needs repeating every time this comes up: the “spiral rule” is nonsense.

https://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=5080096

  • pravnar 12 years ago

    Ah.. thanks for sending that thread.

  • sp332 12 years ago

    I always figured it was a joke anyway. I mean, how can you have "clockwise" in a single dimension?

    • stephencanon 12 years ago

      I’ve always assumed that it’s a joke as well, but that doesn’t seem to stop the gullible from believing it.

      • sp332 12 years ago

        Yeah, Poe's Law in action I guess.

  • tzs 12 years ago

    Is there a reason you linked to ycombinator.org instead of ycombinator.com?

    • stephencanon 12 years ago

      google’d to find my old posting, and didn’t notice the domain. Too late to edit now.