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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by knownothing on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:24PM (#13189149)
Right. That's why we never find out we were wrong about anything in science.
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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by thebspatrol on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:55PM (#13189442)
The laws of physics aren't interchangeable with our understanding of them
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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by palunon on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:36PM (#13189758)
And in that case, maybe our understanding that there are laws of physics and that they don't change is false.
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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by knownothing on Thursday December 15, 2016 @08:02PM (#13190226)
That's a philosophically naive view of how science works.
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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by thebspatrol on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:04AM (#13191397)
Claiming that our understanding of science 500 years ago is at all equitable to the way science works in 2016 is even more naive.
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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by knownothing on Friday December 16, 2016 @08:32AM (#13193083)
That's the opposite of what I'm claiming so maybe you should work on your reading rather than science. Our understanding changed over 500 years. And in another 500 years some moron will be saying the same thing you are, that we've always had perfect and final knowledge of science, and it will be just as stupid then.
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