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What an absurd headline. If the island somehow disappeared, they would soon find out that the "entire island" was not in fact backed up.
by parasti 3y ago
What an absurd headline. If the island somehow disappeared, they would soon find out that the "entire island" was not in fact backed up.
- pinko 3y agoYour observation is so obvious that it should make you wonder whether you're making an insightful and helpful criticism -- or just failing to comprehend that not all sentences are literal, and rhetorical flourishes are a thing. For god's sake, prose is not code.
- goosejuice 3y agoOr making a joke... furthering your last point.
- parasti 3y agoI'm definitely not trying to be helpful. Just openly annoyed by yet another clickbait headline in a sea of clickbait headlines that somehow survived HN scrutiny.
- etblg 3y ago[flagged]
- tivert 3y ago> What an absurd headline. If the island somehow disappeared, they would soon find out that the "entire island" was not in fact backed up. I totally agree, it's the kind of grandiose exaggeration I've come to expect from SV culture. In reality, they scanned 40,000 documents and 60,000 images.