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Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child? by amasad on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:15PM (#20967183)
I think you're missing a basic understanding of what an "analogy" is. Hard to keep this conversation going.
Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child? by mikeash on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:20PM (#20967680)
Programming had essentially zero real-world impact before the 1950s. The analogy you’re trying to make is that vaccines existed but had virtually no real world impact before the 1960s. Did I get that right? Because that’s what I understood, and it’s severely wrong.