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Someone, before now, for some reason, flagged this thread. (And I'm wondrously curious as to why - because the flaggers clearly saw something objectionable abou

• jacknews 8y ago
  "The massive waste of human talent rippled upward, eventually destroying the British lead in computing and the British computer industry." It was probably flagged because the central claim seems highly dubious. The only thing the article really proves is that history is at least partly made by whoever is telling it. And that if you hold a viewpoint strongly enough (or are a professional promoter of a viewpoint), absolutely everything, however tangential, will look like an instance of it, be caused by it, etc.
  • ci5er 8y ago
    > that history is at least partly made by whoever is telling it Absolutely. I am not a relativist, but I find that any narrative that challenges mine (while wrong, haha) is interesting. I'm not going to call it alternative history fiction (which I also find interesting), but it is a point-of-view that I had not considered (and maybe ought to have - esp. here where many if not most of the underlying facts are true).
• masonic 8y ago
  This is its fourth submission this week, none of which shows as flagged down.
  • grzm 8y ago
    If you're using hn.algolia.com (say, via the past link) to confirm that, AIUI, flagged submissions aren't indexed or returned as results.