“Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?” • Hacker News Board

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

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Post by scott_s » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:46 PM UTC

jbob2000 wrote: post #4

The answer is one of the top comments: > Yellow. Looks like a squiggle of yellow oil paint squeezing out of a short, fat tube.

The top response is far more convincing (it's a loan word from Swedish, and it's a knock-off ball, making such mistakes more likely).

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:48 PM UTC

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Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

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Post by sp332 » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:48 PM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #2

This is the kind of deep investigation of a super specific issue I always enjoy reading. This is what I thought the internet would be, 20 years ago.

It's a sign of a "cognitive surplus", because we have more educated people now than we have jobs for them to do. Also it's a sign of how these sites get people to work for them for free, and concentrate huge amounts of other people's work for their own benefit. This poster got nothing for all that work, but SE still gets advertising revenue driven by interest in the content.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

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Post by wallabie » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:50 PM UTC

It may still be an axe, but with a silent Y in the front. A 'yaxe', if you will.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

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Post by rangibaby » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:52 PM UTC

ninjakeyboard wrote: post #15

Tube of paint squeezing out some yellow sounds reasonable.

I'm with you. That "handle" looks like paint to me.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

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Post by BugsJustFindMe » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:52 PM UTC

ninjakeyboard wrote: post #15

Tube of paint squeezing out some yellow sounds reasonable.

Except that neither the axe head nor the intersection between it and the yellow look anything at all like that.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

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Post by saimiam » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:52 PM UTC

"Y? You Axe..."

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

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Post by ryanx435 » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:52 PM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #2

This is the kind of deep investigation of a super specific issue I always enjoy reading. This is what I thought the internet would be, 20 years ago.

you should read some of /pol/'s analysis of the email leaks from last year: it was truly a wonder of crowd-sourced investigation. They even set up meta investigators (managers?) to help guide the anonymous users' investigations to make sure that all of the emails got read and categorized.

it was quite fun to be a part of, actually.

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Post by metaphor » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:53 PM UTC

ninjakeyboard wrote: post #15

Tube of paint squeezing out some yellow sounds reasonable.

25 physical. 1 abstract. Internet throws Occam's razor out the window.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:54 PM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #2

This is the kind of deep investigation of a super specific issue I always enjoy reading. This is what I thought the internet would be, 20 years ago.

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