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Good old days like lying about sugar and tobacco? The unscientific racism in the US and Germany? Lusenkoism? If any, from 1970 we got RMS, Linus Torvalds, GCC,
by anthk 3y ago
Good old days like lying about sugar and tobacco? The unscientific racism in the US and Germany? Lusenkoism?
If any, from 1970 we got RMS, Linus Torvalds, GCC, Emacs, Gnuplot, Perl, Python, BLAS/Lapack and so boosting scientific research to unthinkable levels...
- questinthrow 3y agoAlso quite hilarious that your example exemplifies my point that a scientific discipline like computer science has its peak when its still in the domain of a few elite contributors. Which for computer science was at its very start, compare that to how it is today when when we invent ever more byzantine ways to create CRUD applications since the masses have been attracted to "computer science" to make money.
- anthk 3y agoYour 'elite' supported bullshit science not so long ago. Even Edison with DC vs AC. Pick either that, or... the lead industry. Or tobacco. Or... More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39500484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39500484
- questinthrow 3y agoYup there has been junk science in the past due to bad incentives. Thats why its a very good idea to double down on these counterproductive incentives and also push everyone with a pulse into university so that he does cargo cult science based on these incentives because in this way we will uhh... make science better or something.