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A comment on John Lasseter taking a leave of absence amid reports of inappropriate behavior. Parent comment

Re:John Lasseter taking a leave of absence amid reports of i... by aaron-lebo on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:20PM (#15752642)
It's probably true. Given enough time and people, someone's going to do it. You just gotta look at ancient civs and how they often would independently come up with really complex stuff. Given the spread of knowledge since that time, some discoveries might be easier.

Billions of people over hundreds of years produces lots of opportunities.

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Re:John Lasseter taking a leave of absence amid reports of i... by rglullis on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:23PM (#15753069)
This was not OP's argument. The argument is that we could have replaced Feynman with whoever was second-best-yet-not-a-chauvinist-pig, and we would get exactly the same outcome, sans sexism.
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Re:John Lasseter taking a leave of absence amid reports of i... by aaron-lebo on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:30PM (#15753110)
That's one way of reading it, sure.
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