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jjk166yesterday at 4:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you have an anvil hanging over your head, the potential energy that would kill you already exists. Slowly lowering the anvil makes sense. Damaging the rope holding the anvil doesn't.


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ryanisnanyesterday at 4:37 PM

I don’t think this is a good analogy.

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moffkalastyesterday at 4:46 PM

I think this is analogus to lowering it bit by bit in small but manageable head bonks.

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