Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth

Moriarty@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Persians, Muslims, Arabs kept knowledge and science that would have been lost during the dark ages.

  If it wasn’t for their continued work in maths and sciences centuries would.have been lost / wasted.

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  • SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lost because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge. So very nice of them.

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    • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge

      What civilization are you talking about?

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      • 4lan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Islamophobes going to islamophobe

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Downvotes show that people here don’t know that even in 9th century a large part of the ME’s population was Christian dhimmis. Coptic, Assyrian, Armenian, Nestorian. “Dhimmi” means they couldn’t bear arms and had to pay “protection tax”, and also a “Muslim robbing a dhimmi” situation was usually resolved in favor of the Muslim.

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      • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Which is vastly different from being murdered and having their civilizations destroyed, like for instance the Crusaders did.

        The Crusaders also did not stop from slaughtering orthodox Christians either.

        When looking at the details, Persian, Arab and Mauretanian rules over people of other religions were much more tolerant and civilized than comparable European ruling situations. I guess the saddest example of these are the Spanish Jews, who flourished under the “Moors” and got genocided and ethnically cleansed by the Catholics, after they were no longer dhimmis under Muslim rule.

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• Longpork3@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Built off it, rather than copied it. That’s par for the course in most science.

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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.

  Just ask Tesla Edison!

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Edison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      True but then again that’s the point: he stole some fame as a scientist. Or at least as an “inventor”.

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• Contravariant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.

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