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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: 29
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Created: 2015-01-03T17:05:57
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u/xamueljones [+5] My arch-enemy is entropy*
This post isn't about rational behavior, but I thought people here would like it.
u/Empiricist_or_not [+2] Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm*
Very entertaining
u/libertarian_reddit [+1] *
Very funny, thank you.
u/shupack [+3] *
This is why IKEA furniture instructions are all symbols
u/Magodo [+2] Ankh-Morpork City Watch*
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*
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] *
I have to imagine that killing and displacing a bunch of scientists was bad for their research.
u/Igigigif [+1] IT Foxgirl*
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