alt Hacker News> Its a sentence that seems meaningful, but actually is not.
It's perfectly meaningful. When everything is colourful you can't use colour to stand out. It's very simple. Obvious even.
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jryle70 • 04/03/2025
> When everything is colourful you can't use colour to stand out. It's very simple. Obvious even.
Why not? Different colors stand out. Even gray on black does. They are just not colorful.
Look at this painting - [0]. Are you telling me the red tone doesn't stand out?
[0] - https://largemodernart.com/products/original-abstract-art-oi...
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Sure you can. Red rose in a field of green for example. Human eyes evolved to see the colours the way they do precisely because they were working in a world where nearly everything is colourful and some things needed to stand out.