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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by sillysaurusx on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:02AM (#25831362)
If you study a lot of history, you start to notice that old ideas are bad until they’re suddenly very good. Cannons sucked for a long time, till Napoleon showed they weren’t so bad.

I think posting haughty words is a lot easier than trying to make something work.

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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by coldtea on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:17AM (#25831460)
>If you study a lot of history, you start to notice that old ideas are bad until they’re suddenly very good.

Also the opposite: dumb ideas are tried again and again to no avail ever.

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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by a1o on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:54AM (#25832129)
Adding as example of dumb ideas, people constantly trying to patent perpetual motion machines.
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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by hef19898 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:00AM (#25834722)
Nitpic on Napoleon, cannons were used centuries before him in sieges. People knew they were good all along.
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