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carlosjobimtoday at 2:20 PM1 replyview on HN

How do you know anything five years down the road? You don't even know where you yourself will be.

When proven wrong, hackers always say "Well in 5 years time or in 10 years time, things might have changed, so I was right and you were wrong".

It limits your own reasoning capabilities, and your satisfaction of always being right yet again will start diminishing with time.


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gosub100today at 3:17 PM

Well said. I think people don't know when to just back down. Arguing the latest reply becomes a reflex rather than a 2-way discussion.

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