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tcoppi on Sept 30, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hard Tech Startups

> Reverse engineering is not research because someone already has the answer.

Someone potentially had the answer at one point. That person/organization may be dead/defunct, or the knowledge may otherwise be lost to time.

snovv_crash on Sept 30, 2016 [–]

Yes, but an answer exists.

tcoppi on Sept 30, 2016 | [–]

...an answer always exists, even in pure scientific research. Nothing is inexplicable.

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