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by boxed 1029 days ago
> The agile manifesto is a nonfalsafiable [sic] commentary on what was the status quo decades ago.

It's not a commentary. So.. you kinda failed already on that point. It's also not pretending to be a scientific hypothesis in the first place so "unfalsifiable" is a weird attack as it's just missing the point.. again.
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mcluck 1029 days ago
It's a commentary in that it was written in response to the practices of the day.

It's nonfalsifiable because it can't be incorrect. No matter what you do, you can claim it didn't match what the authors intended

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boxed 1029 days ago
In the same way as the Golden Rule is non-falsifiable? I guess... but that in no way takes away from the truth of the Golden Rule.
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mcluck 1028 days ago
It's very easy to go against the golden rule. I don't want people to scream obscenities at me so I don't. If I scream obscenities at people and am upset when people respond in kind, it's clear I violated the golden rule
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boxed 1028 days ago
That made no sense.
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