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Could you explain that, please? Hacker News has a policy of preferring that articles are submitted with their original title[1] (which was manifestly NOT done h
by tokenadult 12y ago
Could you explain that, please? Hacker News has a policy of preferring that articles are submitted with their original title[1] (which was manifestly NOT done here), and to me the article is a lot less interesting than its submission title promises. I am a Wikipedian, and once in a great while I see an article on Wikipedia that is actually well written enough to be worth submitting to Hacker News, a community of thoughtful discussion that prizes submissions that "gratif[y] one's intellectual curiosity."
But most submissions from Wikipedia to Hacker News, and especially the submissions that are submitted with heavily altered titles, don't gratify anyone's intellectual curiosity so much as raise all kinds of questions about incomplete research or writing in the original underlying Wikipedia article. Here, the description appears to be of a very low-energy system that occasionally halts entirely and may not really be doing anything very remarkable. It's hard to tell how the energy flows or steadiness of motion in this system compare to other electro-mechanical systems that just weren't made quite as long ago, and that weren't judged by such relaxed standards.
[1] "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Avshalom 12y agoThe phrase 'has not stopped for 174 years' is ambiguous the event that has not occurred could be 'stopping' or could be 'stopping for 174 years'. As to every other sentence you wrote: its a community, whatever you think is appropriate is only slightly relevant and even what dang thinks is only slightly more relevant.
- logicallee 12y agoI read your parent as a joke! The title can be read the same as the Mitch Hedberg joke: "I haven't slept for 10 days...because that would be too long." This has never "stopped for 174 years"...because that would be too long.
- dang 12y agoThanks; we reverted the title.