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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This is one of the reasons why we shouldn't name things after people.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This, and the fact that most stuff is invented by teams and not individuals. I think our tendency to name after a single person helps keep the hero/savior/Messiah complex of western society alive, and blinds us to the power of community and cooperation. It's like "individual-washing" the past.

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