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Re:After a Stroke at 33 a Writer Relies on Journals to Piece... by mei0Iesh on Sunday February 12, 2017 @07:00AM (#13627965)
The headline made me sad but this comment made me laugh. If only all life's problems could be handled with simple engineering. With all the machinery you'd have to stuff everywhere, there'd be a lot more problems.
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Re:After a Stroke at 33 a Writer Relies on Journals to Piece... by jnbiche on Sunday February 12, 2017 @07:42AM (#13628078)
> With all the machinery you'd have to stuff everywhere, there'd be a lot more problems.

Oh, machinery like pacemakers, knee implants, cochlear implants? Seems to me we have far too little of such machinery, rather than too much.

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Re:After a Stroke at 33 a Writer Relies on Journals to Piece... by Eerie on Sunday February 12, 2017 @07:55AM (#13628116)
>> If only all life's problems could be handled with simple engineering.

They can't.

No, complex engineering is another thing entirely.

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