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    1 year ago

    And sometimes it takes way longer than that.

    There’s even a controversy about whether Google’s PageRank algorithm was intentionally developed as a worse version of (future) Baidu’s RankDex so they could patent it. The fact that there’s any scientific advancement at all under capitalism and the patent system is frankly a miracle.