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Starman_Jonesyesterday at 1:48 AM1 replyview on HN

The problem with Newtonian mechanics, especially idealized frictionless versions, is that it gives you a wrong impression of how the world works. Much better to understand and accept friction, because it leaves you with an accurate understanding, instead of an easy-to-learn version supported by fundamentally flawed concepts.

Within physics, there are much, much, much better models than Newtonian mechanics for conceptualizing economics.


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fsckboyyesterday at 3:11 AM

they never ever teach physics the way you describe, they teach it the way I describe, and they never stop at the frictionless assumption. I am intellectually advantaged over you in every possible way, yet you do have a comparative advantage; unfortunately it's at spewing tendentious argumentative not-even-interesting nonsense.