matrixrunner

Android Studio is a fork of IntelliJ IDEA, which is open sourced and free software (under Apache 2.0), with additions from Google (proprietary and closed source, as far as I can tell), so it has components that are both. This is compatible with the Apache license, which doesn't require that derivative works be distributed under the same license.

So, ultimately, Android Studio has some components that are open source and some that aren't.

5 mo. ago

my chucks

Don't lose them.

6 mo. ago

Accuracy rule

Without, for anyone interested. NoNewTextDocument

7 mo. ago

Based Razor

Yes, one can assert that a principle is useful, but that is not the same as asserting a specific claim. The point being made is about buttressing claims with supporting reason and evidence, not that making an uncomplex statement can be casually thrown out.

A different expression of the same idea is the (relatively new, but still not as recent as the 20th century) Latin phrase "Quod gratis asceritur, gratis negatur" -- loosely "That which can be easily asserted can be easily negated". The criticism is again of the support for the specific claim being made.

The point that unifies these two statements is that it takes effort to produce a robust, defensible, truth claim. What the Latin describes as an "easy" assertion, Hitchens can be read to imply as being lazy i.e. that gathering evidence and clear reason takes time and energy.

As to this principle itself, I would have difficulty arguing that it is easy to produce a valid truth claim without at least some effort. Brandolini's Law is an observation that it is easy to produce false or misleading information and difficult to refute the same. This is, again, just a distilled observation of a pattern, and the argument supporting it regresses to gathering as much bad information as possible, pointing at it, and saying:

"All of that wasn't checked and because we now have to unlearn these falsehoods, it takes that effort as well as the effort of learning the truth to improve our knowledge from this point."