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by umvi 2842 days ago
> Lesson: If a bunch of smart and educated people tell you that you're wrong, then you're probably wrong.

Not always the case. As they say, science advances one funeral (of smart and educated people) at a time...

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There will always be exceptions, hence the "probably" in their lesson. There's paradigm shifts, and then there's an unnoticed bug in code hacked together to prove something to oneself.