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bchtoday at 2:28 AM1 replyview on HN

> you can't turn a river around with a stick

Somebody forgot to tell this[0] guy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi


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_carbyau_today at 5:59 AM

That's a lot of rock.

It is a thing with humans. We :

1. overestimate how much we can do in a short amount of time.

2. underestimate how much we can do incrementally over a long amount of time.

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