[taneq]

This always blows my mind - for the first time in human history we live in a world where almost all prior art is relatively easily discoverable, and people don't even bother.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, after all, I've met a lot of people.

[pjc50]

The sheer weight of information can make it harder to find. Also, nobody gets paid for being the prior art.

[taneq]

Finding the prior art pays you back the time you’d have spent repeating the same mistakes, though.