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philwelch
on Nov 11, 2019
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Why the Boeing 737 will never take the place of th...
It’s a bad analogy but maybe responding to the analogy in a way that doesn’t apply to the airplane problem came across as confusing and irrelevant.
Dylan16807
on Nov 11, 2019
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Personally I don't think it's irrelevant to try to cut off an unhelpful analogy, those things sometimes act like black holes. But point taken.
philwelch
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Nah I get that, it was just ambiguous whether you were cutting it off or falling into the black hole, but maybe that’s just me :)
Dylan16807
on Nov 12, 2019
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The black hole would be trying to elaborate a whole lot on top of a completely broken foundation, or trying to fix the analogy in intense detail when you should start from scratch, etc.
I just said one line about how that analogy didn't fit.
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