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Culture wars are sadly one of the biggest inhibitors of progress throughout all of technology.
by nixpulvis 4mo ago
Culture wars are sadly one of the biggest inhibitors of progress throughout all of technology.
- ori_b 4mo agoWhy does liking something different from you imply there's a war?
- hoppp 4mo agoThere is often a neo-tribalistic mentality. "My tribe is better than your tribe" Some people thrive inside this mentality, whole others don't go near it. Not everyone is thinking like this but a lot of people do. So because of that it's a common heuristic to think of it as "war" because there are some people who do that gladly.
- flohofwoe 4mo agoIn computing this is almost a tradition (Commodore vs Atari vs PC, Windows vs UNIX vs MacOS). It hasn't exactly hindered progress, I'd rather call it healthy competition ;) Still though: Amiga 4 ever! :D
- nixpulvis 4mo agoIt doesn't and I never said anything about preferences directly. There are however culture wars, and they cause problems throughout the industry and discipline.
- juudjjsa 4mo ago[flagged]
- ks2048 4mo agoIt seems to hinge a lot on what is “culture”.
- pstuart 4mo ago"my tribe"
- dbetteridge 4mo agoYou could just have left off the last part of that :D > Culture wars are sadly one of the biggest inhibitors of progress