That's nothing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10952016

oneeyedpigeon · on Jan 22, 2016

"Some have had disks replaced, the odd battery renewed, ..."

Reminds me of the old gag: "I've had that broom for 14 years. It's only had 2 new heads and 3 new handles."

At least the server in the original story stayed original.

_Codemonkeyism · on Jan 22, 2016

This was thought of by the Greeks, it's called 'Theseus paradox'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

saalweachter · on Jan 22, 2016

Even better (especially when talking about things like teleportation), the Roosevelt Birthplace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_Birthplace_...

It was torn down in 1916 and then a replica was built in the same place in 1919.

orthecreedence · on Jan 22, 2016

Actually it's kind of odd, but I had a situation where a desktop computer would have a very specific boot issue (as in, if you restart it, it hangs, but if you power down, wait 5s then power up, it boots fine). Over time as I upgraded it, I replaced the hard drive, the motherboard, the power supply, the video card, the cpu, the memory, and the case. The problem remained.

I know it's anecdotal, but the machine seemed to retain some core unwillingness to restart even though every piece of it had been replaced separately. I believe it was the same "broom" even though every component was different from the original.

static_noise · on Jan 22, 2016

Why degrade something when you found something else that you think is better?

  The game of one-upping doesn't raise the quality of the discussion.

  - Chuck Norris

chris_wot · on Jan 22, 2016

Hey buddy, I can degrade any criticisms of one-upmanship FAR better than you can.

There's no need to involve Chuck.

static_noise · on Jan 22, 2016

You could have shown it right here. On the other hand it's pointless to argue since Chuck made his point.