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This is the real deal, though it isn't practical at large scale. My business partner is bitter because he had this idea a year ago and was told by experts in th
by rms 18y ago
This is the real deal, though it isn't practical at large scale. My business partner is bitter because he had this idea a year ago and was told by experts in the field that it would never work.
- ingenium 18y ago>My business partner is bitter because he had this idea a year ago and was told by experts in the field that it would never work. It's described in this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751 and my follow up comment.
- ComputerGuru 18y ago"experts" you mean.
- timr 18y agoSounds like this idea predates your partner, but more generally, the skepticism he encountered would be a feature of science, not a bug. Scientists are paid to be skeptical. (I know that you probably know this, but I think most people would take your comment to mean that establishment scientists are all incompetent curmudgeons, irrationally resistant to "outsider" ideas.)