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I had a long reply, but now deleting it all except this bit, which goes back to the theme of the actual article : If there’s ever been one thread on Hacker New
by jeffwass 9y ago
I had a long reply, but now deleting it all except this bit, which goes back to the theme of the actual article :
If there’s ever been one thread on Hacker News where a user could reasonably claim to doubt another’s memory of an event that possibly didn’t occur : this is that thread.
- dahart 9y agoGood point, I do buy that the article’s proximity and power of suggestion has (mis) led you to think you know something you don’t. The Bud Light joke had been seen by hundreds of millions of people, with dozens examples of the joke in those ads. Kids in my school had been practicing that joke in various situations. I am certain you’ve drastically mis-calculated the probability of someone repeating the joke. I’d be surprised if tens of thousands of people hadn’t thought the same joke independently. In case you hadn’t followed the immediate thread, people who believed the shuttle disaster couldn’t have been seen live were (like you) wrong.
- jeffwass 9y agoFair enough.