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		tlrobinson on June 18, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argum... There's also the generic "that's provably false".

paulgb on June 18, 2010 [–]

"If that's true, it follows that P=NP"

"That would reduce to the halting problem"

Or my favorite,

"If you can solve that problem, there are much more lucrative applications for the technology than [what you're working on]"

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