alt Hacker News> every single new product category in tech always, no exceptions, insists on learning nothing from history,
I've worked in a bunch of industries and places over the years, and this is not just a tech thing. Like, there's a reason that saving a day in the library with a week in the lab is a pretty famous saying.
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partyficial • today at 2:16 PM
what if kings attacking and burning down libraries of advanced civilizations (Nalanda, Alexandria) is a way for humans to reset the world's knowledge, because we got bored of our achievements and want to start from scratch ?
Nice saying. Another one I just remembered is "We don't have enough money to do it right, but we have enough to do it twice."