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by mei0Iesh 3409 days ago
The headline made me sad but this comment made me laugh. If only all life's problems could be handled with simple engineering. With all the machinery you'd have to stuff everywhere, there'd be a lot more problems.
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> With all the machinery you'd have to stuff everywhere, there'd be a lot more problems.

Oh, machinery like pacemakers, knee implants, cochlear implants? Seems to me we have far too little of such machinery, rather than too much.

>> If only all life's problems could be handled with simple engineering.

They can't.

No, complex engineering is another thing entirely.