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Comment by harpersealtako

Not at all, actually. In fact that's the opposite of what I'm arguing. There are countless things left to invent. It's just not worth doing most of the time.

As a trivial example, Unicode is not a 100% perfect text encoding scheme. Why don't we have something better than unicode? Why is there no interest in making a unicode-but-better format which solves all the problems with unicode? The reason is, unicode is sufficiently good that the cost of switching would outweigh any marginal benefits.

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