The dirty secret of expertise is that most experts in any field would rank their own profession's average competence somewhere between alarming and indictable
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In the field of economics, the disease is out of control
@Daojoan I recall it once being said that a specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less. So, in the asymptotic limit, the ideal expert is one who knows so much about a whole lotta nothing.
I knew a guy who was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year who firmly believed that setting the text encoding to “binary” on a database column meant the column was “encrypted” and thus you could just insert plaintext passwords there without worry.
@Daojoan are they right?
