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There was a remarkable edge case in the /new queue last week, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713166 ("[Ho
by perihelions 4y ago
There was a remarkable edge case in the /new queue last week,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713166 ("[How*] Russia Decides to Go Nuclear (foreignaffairs.com)")
A single word establishes the gap between "this is the hypothetical procedure of how a nuclear war would start" and "a nuclear war is starting".
These bot edits can be pretty distracting when they go wrong!
- dang 4y agoThat's true, although "How Russia decides to go nuclear" is linkbait in its own right and includes a (weaker) form of the same confusion.