Ask HN: Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Gates being killed?

Re:Ask HN: Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Ga... by purplecats on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:19AM (#27034814)

> there's a power-law dropoff in interestingness along any predictable sequence

brilliant quote. is there a name for this, or did you just make it up on the spot?

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Re:Ask HN: Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Ga... by dang on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:23PM (#27040032)

It's a point I've been trying to make for a while (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) but that particular wording just came to me.

Related concepts, if anyone's interested:

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Re:Ask HN: Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Ga... by purplecats on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:20PM (#27082736)

First application that comes to mind when trying to internalize this concept is drug usage.

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