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I read the whole thing in gripping detail with Mt St Helens out my office window... I was imagining the horror of not being able to blog about my death as the T

• prawn 11y ago
  I think the human toll goes without saying (well, until you said it). The technical impact is naturally of interest specifically to HN readers.
  • platz 11y ago
    Especially since we know HN readers are sociopaths
    • TrevorJ 11y ago
      Shh, nobody is supposed to know that.
• jodrellblank 11y ago
  Then you'll realise the human impact was mentioned repeatedly in the article - population in the affected regions, elderly people, school children, estimated death counts by different organizations. That was one main focus of the article - how many people such an event would kill. Why is it necessary to prefix/suffix a comment on the article, with an "of course, people will die and that's obviously bad, we don't want people to die, is this enough mentioning of the people dying that we can say something else without you passive aggressively implying I don't care about the people dying?"
  • waynecochran 11y ago
    Just seemed like horrific lack of perspective. The infrastructure supporting transient internet technologies is way way down the list of importance if the Cascadia Subduction Zone slips. I grew up in Central Oregon which is surrounded by fresh (geologically speaking) lava fields. I wonder if the Native Americans that were around when Mt Mazama was turned into Crater Lake worried about the disruption of their Obsidian tool making business.