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0 pointscarlosjobim2mo ago0 comments

How do you know anything five years down the road? You don't even know where you yourself will be.

When proven wrong, hackers always say "Well in 5 years time or in 10 years time, things might have changed, so I was right and you were wrong".

It limits your own reasoning capabilities, and your satisfaction of always being right yet again will start diminishing with time.

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gosub1002mo ago

Well said. I think people don't know when to just back down. Arguing the latest reply becomes a reflex rather than a 2-way discussion.

mcny2mo ago

I'm trying to motivate one or hopefully both of these ideas

- if it is worth backup up or exporting, it is worth doing it early and often

- but more importantly if we backing up and exporting, we should be continuously thinking are we even on the right platform? Does a better alternative exist?

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