[david-given]

"It's an old mistake and not very costly in practice, but the intuitive rightness isn't worth the pain in the butt."

Why is it intuitively right?

[melloclello]

"a string can be slack in many ways, but taut in only one"

0 is true, everything else is false. At least that's my intuition.

[emmelaich]

Huh! Pretty similar to my comparison to Tolstoy's quote on happy and unhappy families.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10282933