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WorldClown ago

His brain was evidence he was a legit genius.

They didn't have the internet and because of all the wars the scientific community wasn't openly sharing any of this.

When I write a piece of software I use maybe 50%-75% of other people's work - libraries and functions. Does it mean I didn't write my software?

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When I write a piece of software I use maybe 50%-75% of other people's work - libraries and functions. Does it mean I didn't write my software?

Do you take credit for: "date parsers, database hooks, certain sorting algos"?

Similarly, E=mc², the famous equation relating mass, energy, and the speed of light, had been published several times by Italian physicist Olinto De Pretto, long before Einstein was suddenly given credit for it.

If you don't see a problem with this, you might be jewish. Just read any article for the equation, and look who is still given credit for it.

In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the principle that anything having mass has an equivalent amount of energy and vice versa, with these fundamental quantities directly relating to one another by Albert Einstein's famous formula: This formula states that the equivalent energy can be calculated as the mass multiplied by the speed of light squared.

Even The Guardian admits Olinto De Pretto made the equation first. They avoid throwing Einstein under the bus by claiming that Olinto De Pretto didn't understand it.

WorldClown ago

I leave whatever licensing requests the original authors left. Usually just means not stripping their meta headers.