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Isn’t it pretty strange to write about what makes a great essay without mentioning a single actual essay except Charles Darwin’s natural selection paper from 18

• y1n0 3y ago
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• mvdtnz 3y ago
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    • dang 3y ago
      Of course you can—plenty of comments are doing it all the time, including in this thread. What's not ok is to post cheap one-liner putdowns about anybody. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
• noqc 3y ago
  Somehow a 233 page manuscript is not what I think of when I think of "essay".