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When people are given awesome power, they don't read the instructions!
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Author: u/xamueljones My arch-enemy is entropy*
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Score: 28
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Created: 2015-01-03T17:05:57
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u/xamueljones [+5] My arch-enemy is entropy (37 seconds later)
This post isn't about rational behavior, but I thought people here would like it.
u/Empiricist_or_not [+2] Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm (an hour later)
Very entertaining
u/libertarian_reddit [+1] (8 hours later)
Very funny, thank you.
u/shupack [+3] (6 hours later)
This is why IKEA furniture instructions are all symbols
u/Magodo [+2] Ankh-Morpork City Watch (12 hours later)
While the story is awesome, what do you guys think about Hitler's death causing the non existence of computers and electronics?
Wouldn't we have discovered those things anyway?
u/alexanderwales [+4] Time flies like an arrow (12 hours later)
We definitely would have those things - it's just a question of how delayed the technologies would be without the concerted war effort pulling people from various specialties in and giving them a lot of funding. In a parallel timeline without WWII (and it's a big leap to go from "no Hitler" to "no WWII") you would probably have the funding done by private companies, educational institutions, or a government that didn't really care that a war wasn't on and just wanted to spend some money.
The first conception of the electrical digital computer predates WWII by two years, for what it's worth.
u/None [+2] (a day later)
I have to imagine that killing and displacing a bunch of scientists was bad for their research.
u/Igigigif [+1] IT Foxgirl (a day later)
regardless of the validity of that conjecture, shouldn't it be possible just to bring some data about computer back, or even found a company dedicated to developing them early? The message board obviously exists outside the timestream (somehow) so information, at the very least, can still be preserved