Re:Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, See...
by nkurz on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:56PM
(#18651482)
I see. You were pointing out the hyphenation or lack thereof? I think you might have missed that the earlier discussion was regarding "seated" versus "seeded". Thus your brevity made it looked like you were claiming that the "seeded" form was correct. I don't think anyone else was concerned about the hyphenation.
Re:Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, See...
by lovemenot on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:11PM
(#18651939)
Now we have three variants in the wild. The correctly folded "deep-seated" and its harmless but slightly anomalous "deep seated". Worryingly, there's this new configuration "deep seeded" that a significant but unknown number of HN readers may have been exposed to. Although the original infection source has been neutralised, we must remain vigilant against sporadic recurrence in future.
P.S. Inconsistency: I assumed that whiddershins was complaining about the hyphen, rather than correcting ‘seeded’, which had been changed to ‘seated’ by the time I first saw it.