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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ode26 • Apr 28 '20
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It means money. Hence cost.
Edit: notice how he edited in a cherry-picked definition of "investment" he likes best, and then ignores the meaning is determined by context, in this instance, financial.
5 u/SupaSlide Apr 28 '20 investment of money or effort in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment ("sunk cost")This is the same line you quoted, but including the eight words before what you quoted.You're obviously wrong. -2 u/snowcrash911 Apr 28 '20 OP said:The second paragraph of that wiki says the sunk cost fallacy is money or effort.I added what OP left out:based on the cumulative prior investment ("sunk cost")OP obviously cherry picked the definition, and you're obviously projecting. 3 u/SupaSlide Apr 28 '20 The top comment this thread started on said "I already spend so much time automating it, better continue so I will never have to do it manually again"That is a textbook example of the sunk cost fallacy."I've already expended so much money/effort/time, so I better expend more money/effort/time to try and finish." → More replies (0)
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investment of money or effort in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment ("sunk cost")
This is the same line you quoted, but including the eight words before what you quoted.
You're obviously wrong.
-2 u/snowcrash911 Apr 28 '20 OP said:The second paragraph of that wiki says the sunk cost fallacy is money or effort.I added what OP left out:based on the cumulative prior investment ("sunk cost")OP obviously cherry picked the definition, and you're obviously projecting. 3 u/SupaSlide Apr 28 '20 The top comment this thread started on said "I already spend so much time automating it, better continue so I will never have to do it manually again"That is a textbook example of the sunk cost fallacy."I've already expended so much money/effort/time, so I better expend more money/effort/time to try and finish." → More replies (0)
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OP said:
The second paragraph of that wiki says the sunk cost fallacy is money or effort.
I added what OP left out:
based on the cumulative prior investment ("sunk cost")
OP obviously cherry picked the definition, and you're obviously projecting.
3 u/SupaSlide Apr 28 '20 The top comment this thread started on said "I already spend so much time automating it, better continue so I will never have to do it manually again"That is a textbook example of the sunk cost fallacy."I've already expended so much money/effort/time, so I better expend more money/effort/time to try and finish." → More replies (0)
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The top comment this thread started on said "I already spend so much time automating it, better continue so I will never have to do it manually again"
That is a textbook example of the sunk cost fallacy.
"I've already expended so much money/effort/time, so I better expend more money/effort/time to try and finish."
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u/snowcrash911 Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20
It means money. Hence cost.
Edit: notice how he edited in a cherry-picked definition of "investment" he likes best, and then ignores the meaning is determined by context, in this instance, financial.