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Pesmerga
Aug 1, 2005

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Sheng-ji Yang posted:

brianboyko ‏@brianboyko May 10
I've always wondered why there's no such field as "political engineering." "Science is about what is. Engineering is about what CAN be."

gently caress's sake. They're multiplying.

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Pesmerga
Aug 1, 2005

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OwlBot 2000 posted:

Eh nothing wrong with that.

Except it's trite and doesn't mean anything.

"I've always wondered why there's no such field as "legal engineering." "Science is about what is. Engineering is about what CAN be."

"I've always wondered why there's no such field as "cake engineering." "Science is about what is. Engineering is about what CAN be."

"I've always wondered why there's no such field as "networksnetworksnetworks engineering." "Science is about what is. Engineering is about what CAN be."

Pesmerga
Aug 1, 2005

So nice to eat you

This was a really depressing listen. Lessig really has mastered the art of talking a lot without actually saying anything. He's also astoundingly naive.

Pesmerga
Aug 1, 2005

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Munin posted:

Well, you could go and have a laugh at Mike Masnick who also fully bought into this entire MayOne/MayDay stuff:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...-politics.shtml

Mike Masnick is a Silicon Valley libertarian, it's no surprise he's bought into this.

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