candidate new year's resolution: abstaining from calling out every time i see something "new" that is just a repackaging of something else if you only read a book
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Weren’t we arguing about exactly this when I used my scrabble metaphor a few days ago re: old vs new
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it's still the "look what *I* {invented,discovered}!" thing that drives me nuts
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I typically go "nice, reminds me of X!" Kind of a polite way of introducing the predecessor(s). Everything is a remix
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i'm not really sure if the existence of a thing before its eventual repackaging/rebranding counts as a "régime", rather…
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oops forgot
…rather, at the risk of sounding like a platonist (i don't consider myself one), all solutions to a given problem are going to be isomorphic to one another…
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