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		rcarr on May 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013) The straw that broke the camel's back. It does make me laugh how hn appears to have a pathological need to come up with a new (and normally "science" based) metaphor for common folk wisdom.

tbirdny on May 27, 2023 | [–]

Yeah, that and "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" (from the current top comment.)

Eumenes on May 28, 2023 | [–]

This is an industry that reinvents open source libraries every 3 weeks, so ......

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