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Re:20 Years Later by colejohnson66 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @10:44PM (#25578221)
Would P=NP be a better example? Everyone keeps throwing time at it, but it seems almost everyone’s given up.
Re:20 Years Later by jl6 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:52AM (#25579548)
A better analogy might be two kids standing at the bottom of a tree arguing about what the fruit tastes like, but they’re too small to jump or climb to get the fruit and find out.

It’s not wrong to want to find out what the fruit tastes like. Both kids have good ideas about what it might taste like, and there are many such plausible ideas. But the tree is tall, and remains out of their reach, and all they can do is speculate. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of other interesting things they could be doing.

Re:20 Years Later by sgt101 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:27AM (#25579753)
All we're missing here is a snake and 10 years and we've got a theory of everything.