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I wouldn't say it's that shallow. Osama's death has serious political repercussions, much more so than e.g. Michael Jackson or Billy Mays. It could certainly ge

by scythe 16y ago

I wouldn't say it's that shallow. Osama's death has serious political repercussions, much more so than e.g. Michael Jackson or Billy Mays. It could certainly generate interesting discussion.

davidw 16y ago
> It could certainly generate interesting discussion. But likely it won't, like most articles about politics and highly charged subjects.
- scythe 16y ago
  But in reality it did, or at least I'd say as much.
  - davidw 16y ago
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505048 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505048 You don't get this kind of blah blah blah on stories about how Haskell and Erlang do garbage collection.