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Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ... by ohyoutravel on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:27PM (#34635432)
2000 and 2002 were just two years apart, inconsequential [to world politics and the state of the world].
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Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ... by ggm on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:42PM (#34635557)
2018 and 2020 were just two years apart, and no significant difference in the world economy or health indicators took place across the interval. (/not)
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Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ... by marcosdumay on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:01PM (#34636618)
Hum... Was 2001 so long ago that people already forgot it happened?

The GP is saying the same thing as you.

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Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ... by ggm on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:58AM (#34638008)
I suspect the HN cohort increasingly has people not born then.

I had a mortgage during the 17-27% interest years of the eighties. I think about that when people kibbitz about inflation these days.

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