Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia

Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia by zdragnar on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:38PM (#19212250)

Even a broken clock is right twice a day?

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Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia by coldtea on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:51PM (#19212359)

Which is still no good, because nobody can tell which are those two times when it's right by looking at it.

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Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia by gotocake on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:27PM (#19212704)

That’s the point; it’s illustrating a technicality which in no way impacts the uselessness of the clock.

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Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia by zdragnar on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:03PM (#19213610)

You can never know if a clock is showing the correct time unless you have another, known good point of reference.

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Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia by coldtea on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:16PM (#19218434)

Or if you trust the clock.

With the broken clock, you can't ever trust it.

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