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When a medical doctor prescribes you a treatment plan and drugs, do you claim it's all due to marketing wanketeering, and this is the problem of why healthcare is difficult? When they say something that doesn't make sense to you, do you argue with them from a position of ignorance?

Same goes with crypto. It's fine to learn the concepts of how to use a trusted library, but you really aren't likely going to understand the underlying tradeoffs and mathematics.

People here aren't just saying "just use product X", they're saying, "learn the concepts of product X and use that". That's about as good as it's going to get for any specialized, complicated domain.

parent parasubvert 7 years ago

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