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    1 year ago

    it isn’t though. you don’t need cars to learn red means stop, we literally had miniature roads, crossing and signs at my pre-school (or whatever it’s called in English, the one you go at age 3 till 6, you start school at 6).

    Stop sign is red, pedestrian crossing are just red - stop, green - go. you learn that from a very young age so the association is natural.

    Also, just to be clear, I didn’t say redlist is good, just that it’s less stupid than blacklist.


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    1 year ago

    not only that but whitelist-blacklist are just bad names.

    even greenlist-redlist would be better (at least while we have light signals at intersections) as green means go red means stop are more universally understood.

    but allowlist and blocklist are just plain better, they are self explanatory words. you don’t need to learn what they mean since it’s right there in the name.

    whitelist-blacklist are names where you need to learn the meaning of them, sticking to them just because they were used in the past is not the best argument.