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Re:Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury ... by worksonmine on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:44AM (#40003440)
Correlation ≠ causation. The printing press came around the same time and probably contributed to this development, not patents. If he was greedy maybe he would've patented the technology and normal people wouldn't learn to read.
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Re:Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury ... by mrguyorama on Thursday April 11, 2024 @01:41PM (#40004771)
Also, much more importantly, the invention of the scientific method and science as a philosophy of epistemology.

Common knowledge of physics for a thousand years was that heavier things fall faster, so spoke Aristotle. Nobody actually "fact checked" that because "duh, of course heavier things fall faster, this feather falls so slowly, everyone knows that" and so knowledge could not advance.

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