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by taneq 1545 days ago
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.

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The sheer weight of information can make it harder to find. Also, nobody gets paid for being the prior art.
Finding the prior art pays you back the time you’d have spent repeating the same mistakes, though.