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		ynniv 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 Engineering is about focusing on what matters. There's no point in talking about flying cars: they will exist when portable fusion exists, so just talk about that.

cudgy 9 months ago [–]

So you are saying that a true engineer doesn’t read articles and criticizes a successful engineer that wrote said article with hand-wavy arguments?

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