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A comment on East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it in NYC.

Re:East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it... by markmccraw on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:41PM (#2917812)
Not to spoil the fun, but isn't this the sort of stuff that leads down the slippery slope to reddit's front page? I understand that this affects large numbers of HN users, but so do lots of things that are very far from the tech/business/coding core of this site. Besides, there are a million places to go for this info.
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Re:East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it... by jedberg on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:52PM (#2917868)
Speaking from experience, yes, yes it is.
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Re:East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it... by borism on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @03:03PM (#2917911)
What is more "tech" than 6-magnitude earthquake in the middle of Virginia!?

Is the only topic permissable here these days another software patent debacle or something?

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Re:East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it... by sciurus on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:56PM (#2917884)
Agreed. On HN, does the number of votes for a story affect how hard it is to flag it off the front page?
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Re:East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it... by markmccraw on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:56PM (#2917883)
That would be fine if someone posted an article about those things, or even a "Did anyone's server crash due to the earthquake?" But the thread is 95% "I felt it in XX"

edit: Thing I was responding to got deleted, but I'll leave this here anyway.

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