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The west started in Canaan. The children of Mount Lebanon were to the Greeks what the Greeks were to the Romans. History is clear on this matter. We adopted so much of their culture that oftentimes we mimic them. Consider how much of the US's power base is built on decentralized maritime trade.

my coworker just spent 2 weeks "optimizing" something, ended up making it 20x more complicated, made it run 3x slower, only wrote platform-dependent code for a single platform, and merged it into the master branch unprompted