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pjmlp on Feb 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the...

Not only politics, the reason why some languages and OSes rule, is that real progress only happens one generation at a time, to put it in a more friendly wording.

oblio on Feb 19, 2022 [–]

"Science progresses, one funeral at a time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

As a general principle in life, it's quite frightening considering ever increasing life spans.

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