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Re:Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our a... by samontar on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:31AM (#18119256)
Turns out some times the authorities are morons, dude. Once upon a time we dumped radioactive material off the coast of SF and shot holes in the barrels to make them sink. I’m sure there was someone running around saying “there’s probably a good reason”. That dude would have been wrong.
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Re:Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our a... by mrhappyunhappy on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @04:39AM (#18119770)
I wouldn’t disagree with your first statement but HN tends to skew to a bunch of I’m a know it all attitudes. I’m just saying, things are not always as simple as they appear and while you can have an opinion on the matter does not make you authority on the subject. I forget the term for this concept but the news is always wrong depending on who is reading it.
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Re:Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our a... by iamnothere on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:50PM (#18127308)
You're referring to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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