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   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Nov 21, 2025 at 2:50:53 PM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   <10fqmrt$t90$2@dont-email.me>:   
      
   > On 21 Nov 2025 20:49:59 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Nov 21, 2025 at 1:33:00 PM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   >> <10fqi9s$3vebb$3@dont-email.me>:   
   >>   
   >>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:11:08 +0000, David B. wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> You're right that no single human can reasonably evaluate all   
   >>>> those tradeoffs in the timeline diagram - but that's precisely the   
   >>>> problem Brock identified. The fact that the choice space is   
   >>>> "totally unmanageable" even for knowledgeable users is exactly why   
   >>>> newcomers struggle.   
   >>>   
   >>> As I pointed out before, the car market works in exactly the same   
   >>> way. Yet nobody claims that this bewildering variety of car makes   
   >>> and models, shapes, sizes, numbers of seats and doors, and all the   
   >>> rest of it, means that the car market will never succeed -- it   
   >>> already has, precisely because of all that choice.   
   >>   
   >> You made the claim. It was countered.   
   >   
   > Are you denying that the car market a) has lots of choice and b) is   
   > successful?   
      
   No, but that is not relevant to the point.   
      
      
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