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Re:Tiny by brtkdotse on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:56AM (#29377155)
Because people want to pay their rent and eat. “Hard problems” take a lot of work and time and no one is going to pay me to ponder on a tricky algorithm [1]

[1] actually there is. It’s called “academia” and from what I’m told it’s pretty miserable to be in

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Re:Tiny by educatedfool on Monday November 29, 2021 @04:01AM (#29377701)
Agree. Very hard problems or big investments (e.g. rail network, infrastructure at a country level, basic research with high risk of failure that will take decades) you usually have some form of state agency running it.

PS: have not heard a good word about academia from numerous friends in it. Might be regional (EU) but still...

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Re:Tiny by movedx on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:23AM (#29391348)
> Agree. Very hard problems or big investments

Who said anything about hard problems or "big investments"? I never said that. Why are you saying that?

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Re:Tiny by movedx on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:23AM (#29391342)
> Because people want to pay their rent and eat.

That's the wrong reason to set up a business, but the right reason to simply get a job.

> “Hard problems”

Who said anything about hard problems? Are businesses only designed to solve hard problems?

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