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Well done! You have discovered part 1 of The Secret! Congratulations!! Clues to Part 2 of The Secret can be found in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikiped
by rendall 6y ago
Well done! You have discovered part 1 of The Secret! Congratulations!!
Clues to Part 2 of The Secret can be found in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Stakes are high! At the end of the trail of clues, the Council of Immortal Wizards will ask you to join their ranks, at which time they will confer immortality upon you. There are only 10E100-1 steps to go!
Good luck!
- TimSchumann 6y agoThat random wikipedia link is awesome. Didn’t know you could do that.
- johnchristopher 6y agoWhat's the name of the effect that when you click on something random you still end up on something related to you and you think "it's not that random". Because I got that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbridge
- walto2 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
- porpoise 6y agoThe mental habit of seeing connections?
- dolmen 6y agoDot here.
- johnchristopher 6y agoI call that one "creativity" !
- pbw 6y agoApophenia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
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- Tomte 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat_Bog_Soldiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat_Bog_Soldiers
- tomger 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
- ddek 6y agoHmm. I'm having a hard time relating the '1990 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team' to anything in my life though.
- rakoo 6y agoBaader-Meinhof phenomenon ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Fre...
- thunderbong 6y agoSerendipity?
- barry-cotter 6y agoPareidolia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
- EE84M3i 6y agoThat article "Microbridge" should really be deleted because it's not notable, but it looks like it was proposed in 2011 and failed so it isn't eligible for WP:PROD and needs to go through the full WP:AFD process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Microbridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
- drdec 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_and_delusions_of_reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_and_delusions_of_referen...
- bschne 6y agoI once saw a solo improv performance that was started off by using that to get a prompt for a story
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- eloisius 6y agoOff topic: is it new for HN to elide urls this way? I’ve never noticed it before but it really annoys me. I like that HN is just text, and preprocessing it this way adds no usability. It makes it harder to copy a URL, if anything, and it certainly isn’t prettier.
- tyingq 6y agoIt's nice on mobile to avoid left-right scroll for long urls. Copying the url is easy enough with right-click for desktop or long press for mobile.
- jsjw7sbw 6y agoWhats wrong with wrapping?
- tyingq 6y agoPersonal preference I suppose. There are a lot of urls where the text of the url (or large parts of it) conveys no meaning. In that case it breaks up the comment without adding value. Sometimes you see people use a footnote format here because even the short url is in the way.
- eloisius 6y agoNot nice to me. I like to be able to see what the link is before I click it.
- dorfsmay 6y agoOn mobile, in Firefox, do a long press and it'll show you the full target URL. Hoover on any desktop browser.
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- jiofih 6y agoHaha, this was great. I arrived at an article about “John Frum” which did sound like a secret, and was quite the rabbit hole [1]. It got me worried about history. The whole story sounds like 90s zine fiction, which I think it is - there is no record I could find beyond the original story from 1995 on Harper’s Magazine [2], yet it is now in Wikipedia, stated as a fact. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum [2] https://skeptichume.weebly.com/the-gospel-according-to-prum.html https://skeptichume.weebly.com/the-gospel-according-to-prum....
- jfk13 6y agoThe wikipedia article includes references from a couple of decades earlier, at least; e.g. > Nat. Geographic: May 1974. "Tanna (Island, New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean) Awaits the Coming of John Frum (cargo cults of Melanesia since about 1940)". (See https://georgehbalazs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TANNA-AWAITS-THE-COMING-OF-JOHN-FRUM-1974-National-Geographic.pdf https://georgehbalazs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TANNA-A... for a scan of the full article.)
- vageli 6y ago> It got me worried about history. The whole story sounds like 90s zine fiction, which I think it is - there is no record I could find beyond the original story from 1995 on Harper’s Magazine [2], yet it is now in Wikipedia, stated as a fact. Did you look at the references section in the article?
- maneesh 6y agoThis is a great documentary about the situation: https://johnfrummovie.com/ https://johnfrummovie.com/
- wruza 6y agoOh god, I just watched a video about John Frum, and now this subthread, it briefly felt like a delusion.