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TED Talk: Bill Gates on energy - Innovating to zero
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoIs it really so hard to check whether something has been submitted? Pulling out a "Golden Oldie" is one thing, but this exact item was submitted just four hours ago, as can be found by a totally trivial search: http://searchyc.com/bill+gates?sort=by_date http://searchyc.com/bill+gates?sort=by_date which turns up this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134642 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134642 It's not even as if this is a different report, potentially offering a different point of view, or new information. Having separate submissions of identical items means that any discussion gets split, potentially leading to replication, duplication, and loss of opportunity to get the most from the discussion. A small amount of effort and attention can help keep the quality of Hacker News higher than just a rabble. Sorry about the rant, but today I've spent far too long removing utterly unnecessary duplication in some otherwise excellent software. It was becoming totally unmaintainable because of the duplication, and the parallel with duplication here is too much to ignore. </rant>