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You’re conflating software with “the physical medium used to store and run software”. Computers, like the paper that books are printed on, are scarce, but the s
by jbob2000 6y ago
You’re conflating software with “the physical medium used to store and run software”. Computers, like the paper that books are printed on, are scarce, but the software or story, is not.
I can recite Harry Potter without the book, the story has no scarcity to it. Similarly, I can write a for loop without reading it’s structure from a hard drive.
- feanaro 6y agoI don't think I am, but I am using the word in a way that is not very common, in order to convey a lesson. Could you have recited Harry Potter easily before you've heard it the first time?