vitalik.eth on Nostr: Another pattern I despise is insisting on a really important difference in meaning to ...
Another pattern I despise is insisting on a really important difference in meaning to words that sound like synonyms.
"complex vs complicated"
"money vs currency"
"decentralized vs distributed"
No. Stop. Let them be synonyms, use more specific words that clarify the difference.
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