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by theprotocol 3207 days ago
It's certainly subjective, but for me, what I pejoratively refer to as "magic" is things that there's just no escaping knowing, yet are abstracted in a way that obfuscates what's going on. Often, it's presented as "it just works" which ends up being a hindrance since there's just no getting around the thing that it's hiding for you.