This is an excellent submission except that there's another undersea cables thread already on the frontpage: The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph ne

This is an excellent submission except that there's another undersea cables thread already on the frontpage: The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432999 Generally we downweight follow-ups so as to avoid repetition [1, 2]. But once enough time has gone by for the hivemind caches to clear, what is old becomes new again. If you would be willing to email hn@ycombinator.com in, say, a couple months, we could invite a repost and put it in the SCP [3]. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308