Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by ghosh » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 9:10 AM UTC

Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)
npr.org

Re: Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by boatymcdickwad » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 10:10 AM UTC

this article is 5 years old! hackernews is for news, it is not a library.

Re: Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by Coding_Cat » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 11:16 AM UTC

boatymcdickwad wrote: post #2

this article is 5 years old! hackernews is for news, it is not a library.

So you would have been fine if this article was posted here on the day it was written instead? That's a bit arbitrary because the story itself is much older than five years and wouldn't have been "news" than either.

Re: Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by adtac » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 11:41 AM UTC

boatymcdickwad wrote: post #2

this article is 5 years old! hackernews is for news, it is not a library.

Did you know about this before this was posted today?

Even if you did, I'm sure several others got to know of this just today - which makes it worthwhile IMO.

Re: Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by Demcox » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 11:56 AM UTC

I did not know this, so I guess it can qualify as news for me lol

Re: Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by mavhc » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 11:56 AM UTC

adtac wrote: post #4

boatymcdickwad wrote: post #2

this article is 5 years old! hackernews is for news, it is not a library.

Did you know about this before this was posted today? Even if you did, I'm sure several others got to know of this just today - which makes it worthwhile IMO.

yes, because I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501703

Re: Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by emiliobumachar » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 12:09 PM UTC

Relevant smbc:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-05-29

Re: Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by cyphar » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 12:13 PM UTC

Demcox wrote: post #5

I did not know this, so I guess it can qualify as news for me lol

Congratulations, you're one of the lucky 10,000 today! https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by EvilTerran » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 12:31 PM UTC

boatymcdickwad wrote: post #2

this article is 5 years old! hackernews is for news, it is not a library.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site."

Re: Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

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Post by lordnacho » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 12:53 PM UTC

I find it a little bit hard to believe that finding a couple of medals would be a priority as you're invading Denmark and Norway.

Sure, the Danes basically lay down and let the Germans march in, but really? The Germans needed to get to Norway asap, and were probably more concerned about that. Secure airfields, harbors, that kind of thing.

More likely the Danish cooperation policy helped later on, after the Germans had established themselves. Basically, the Danish government decided to save everyone a lot of trouble by cooperating with the invaders, a policy that is much discussed in Danish politics. It came to an end in 1943 after the Germans had done a number of hard to tolerate things.