If Hacker News lasts for hundreds of years, people may look back on this thread as an example of how some were on the right rack and some were heading to a dead

If Hacker News lasts for hundreds of years, people may look back on this thread as an example of how some were on the right rack and some were heading to a dead end. "Leucippus and his pupil Democritus proposed that all matter was composed of small indivisible particles called atoms... They are constantly moving and colliding into each other." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism