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Re:LISPed: The power of programming languages by delackner on Monday May 26, 2008 @11:37PM (#200653)
His choice of phrasing is perhaps poor, but no it is not a contradiction.

If you don't know your life could be better, you are spared the disappointment of knowing you lack something desirable.

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Re:LISPed: The power of programming languages by jshen on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @10:24AM (#200983)
but that isn't what he says. He says that there lives are NOT any worse. This is very different than saying they don't realize they are worse off. I.e. it's a contradiction
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