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Comment author: Thomas 08 May 2010 09:15:54PM 0 points [-]

Done on a new way. Unprecedented and mainly unexpected. It doesn't mean that it is very important then, only a surprise for almost everyone.

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 08 May 2010 09:32:42PM 0 points [-]

I'm still not clear on this definition as it applies to what the top-level post discussed. Everything in the top level post are ideas that aren't unprecedented. Many of these ideas have been around for a very long time. So only talking about ideas which are unprecedented and mainly unexpected seems unhelpful. Also, I'm not sure what constitutes unprecedented in this context.