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I posted this article. I was reading about Brazil on Wikipedia and the rabbit hole brought me to this article which blew my mind. I was surprised I'd never hear

by warent 5y ago

I posted this article. I was reading about Brazil on Wikipedia and the rabbit hole brought me to this article which blew my mind. I was surprised I'd never heard about it before, and wanted to share with the community because it seemed likely others would find it interesting as well. That turned out to be true (plus I think @dang boosted the article to help it get attention) HN isn't just about entrepreneurship. It's really about any kind of cerebral topic. Anyway, it is STEM related which is a significant part of HN.

m0llusk 5y ago
That is all valid and good, but I would suggest that in order to make HN as good as it can be it might be worth searching for a link before posting it. Even if posting the link is still the right thing to do this offers the potential of reflecting on the dozens of past threads in order to understand more. I used the HN search feature on this title and found around over a dozen previous threads many of which were small yet interesting.
- warent 5y ago
  HN has a built-in duplication checker that automatically redirects to the most recent submission of an article within a certain time. If it isn't working properly then Dan would update it, or mark as [Dupe] let the community member know to stop. Having new conversations about old topics is a normal part of communication between humans. Search shows this article is posted on average once per year which is hardly beating a dead horse on old exhausted discussions. I'm sensing there are reasons beneath the surface of why this is affecting you so deeply.
  - m0llusk 5y ago
    It's not affecting me deeply. Why are you being reactive and emotional? There are other Wikipedia pages that do not get posted every year or so thus your objection to my observation and suggestion is unreasonable.

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I posted this article. I was reading about Brazil on Wikipedia and the rabbit hole brought me to this article which blew my mind. I was surprised I'd never hear

by warent 5y ago

m0llusk 5y ago
That is all valid and good, but I would suggest that in order to make HN as good as it can be it might be worth searching for a link before posting it. Even if posting the link is still the right thing to do this offers the potential of reflecting on the dozens of past threads in order to understand more. I used the HN search feature on this title and found around over a dozen previous threads many of which were small yet interesting.
- warent 5y ago
  HN has a built-in duplication checker that automatically redirects to the most recent submission of an article within a certain time. If it isn't working properly then Dan would update it, or mark as [Dupe] let the community member know to stop. Having new conversations about old topics is a normal part of communication between humans. Search shows this article is posted on average once per year which is hardly beating a dead horse on old exhausted discussions. I'm sensing there are reasons beneath the surface of why this is affecting you so deeply.
  - m0llusk 5y ago
    It's not affecting me deeply. Why are you being reactive and emotional? There are other Wikipedia pages that do not get posted every year or so thus your objection to my observation and suggestion is unreasonable.