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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: The Barry Silbert segwit2x agreement with >80% miner support.
by
ComputerGenie
on 06/07/2017, 21:50:26 UTC
...What are the relevant and material facts being ignored?...
I guess you're right, ad hom attacks claiming that every skilled dev in the entire world already works for Core and not one single qualified coder would ever work on a non-Core project (let alone ensure that a non-Core project was thoroughly tested) are 100% factually based. My bad.
Isn't that called a strawman attack?...
No.

You are creating an argument that no one made...
Actually, he did:
... It's only a matter of time they get exposed for being amateurs. Meanwhile Bitcoin Core will continue being the most robust and stable software...
You can't say that it's a strawman that no one made when the original base claim is exactly that. The base claim is that if it's not coded/tested by Core, then it's inferiorly made by "amateurs". There can't be a claim whereby those that aren't involved in  and/or part of Core are only "amateurs" without the included claim that all qualified non-"amateurs" (i.e., professionals) are already part of core. And why can't that be a claim, you might ask; because, English!

When you attempt strip away the validity of one pointing out the absurdity of the original base claim, especially when you attempt to incorrectly grasp the language being used, you fail at any attempt of even grasping what is being said on either side.