> ...I tend to get the opposite impression. I think it can go either way, depending on who you read, because contemporary variation has always been greater tha

> ...I tend to get the opposite impression. I think it can go either way, depending on who you read, because contemporary variation has always been greater than difference over time. Much of what I read in Galen or Aristotle sounds like it could have come from a colleague, while a lot of posts on HN strike me as coming from an alternate reality.