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If it takes 30 years to do something, then you’ve not actually done it.

• playpause 6y ago
  To do what? Done what?
  • burrows 6y ago
    For all X?
    • nitrogen 6y ago
      Suppose X is "become forty years old".
      • burrows 6y ago
        Everyone is dead by 29, it just takes a while for the rounding error to get sufficiently large.
• ineedasername 6y ago
  So there's no area of knowledge that can't be solved in < 30 years?
  • burrows 6y ago
    It’s a rule of thumb, not a law of nature.