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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251952 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251952 Previous previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6331565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6331565 Previous previous previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988 Or consider this followup: "Everything is Bullshit": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7945256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7945256 So this has me wondering, I've heard about people having their cremated remains condensed into a diamond. How much carbon can be extracted from a pile of cow dung? It might be possible to form an artificial diamond from actual bullshit.

tristanj 11y ago
There are even more previous discussions than that. The Priceonomics article is just a rehash of an Atlantic article from 1982, with a modern spin on it. Over a third of the Priceonomics article is just quotes from 1982 original. The original is a far better article overall, but no one has time to read longform these days hence why the rehash is popular. Earlier discussions for the 1982 article: 279 points, 1237 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611 140 points, 2073 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405698 96 points 2189 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110283