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8.9 earthquake hits Japan

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Re: 8.9 earthquake hits Japan

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Post by grammaton »

Sandman wrote: post #31
suyash wrote: post #26

Is this post appropriate for HN?

No, it is not. From the HN guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. And unlike cosmok, I do mind it, because this type of news is slowly turning HN into something it shouldn't be. There's a reason for this particu…

While I agree with what you're saying, there's an exception to every rule. Normally I'd be one of the first to point out something is off topic. I've done so in the past.

However, the strongest earthquake to hit Japan in three centuries, causing loss of who knows how many lives and how much damage?

This is news worth looking beyond the "hacker" moniker for.

Re: 8.9 earthquake hits Japan

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Post by phlux »

solipsist wrote: post #14

And there's already a growing Wikipedia article on the earthquake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake

WTF - That article states 6,000,000 SIX MILLION deaths?

Can this be accurate? It reiterated what I heard on the news regarding passenger trains missing due to the Tsunami - but 6MM???

EDIT: Looks like wiki-trolling...

From CNN:

The official death toll stood at 137, with 539 injured and 351 missing, according to Kyodo, citing police, but that death toll seemed almost certain to rise -- from 200 to 300 bodies have been found in the coastal city of Sendai alone, Kyodo reported. It said the death toll is likely to surpass 1,000.

Re: 8.9 earthquake hits Japan

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Post by Florin_Andrei »

CWuestefeld wrote: post #148

This is what I like about HN. This isn't a particularly "hacker" story, but the perspective here is unique. On the main stream media, I'll get a couple of statistics and video, then an empty comment about "loved ones trying to make sense of this senseless tragedy". On HN, I get the facts, but both broader and deeper, from the geological nature of the quake to the effect on other locales. And I get real, unfiltered pe…

Now imagine a neurotypical person reading this comment. What do you think they'd say?

Re: 8.9 earthquake hits Japan

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Post by TorKlingberg »

angus77 wrote: post #161
ugh wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually first heard about this earthquake on Twitter (all eyewitness reports, no second hand information). I immediately checked all news sites I could think of (European, US) but none were yet reporting on it.

It was on Japanese TV news almost immediately. We were watching it in the office while we were still shaking.

I bet the NHK has a special team always waiting to report on earthquakes and tsunami warnings. They report on many of the smaller quakes very quickly too.

Re: 8.9 earthquake hits Japan

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Post by LogicHoleFlaw »

patio11 wrote: post #61
patio11 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problems Japan does not have #1: insufficient spending on public works projects In Case Shit Happens, because shit happens so often that when people in several dozen countries say shit they're speaking Japanese. Can I tell you my favorite outsourcing story? Apologies for those who've heard it (and yes, this actually happened): India: We can't log into the test server. Patrick: Then you didn't set it up right. India:…

Holy cow, I've been on Hacker News far too long: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=422043

You and me both.

Re: 8.9 earthquake hits Japan

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Post by patio11 »

epochwolf wrote: post #196
patio11 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy cow, I've been on Hacker News far too long: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=422043

A bit off topic but how did you dig that up? Given how active you, you would have clicked next on your comments several hundred times.

SearchYC + a few words I remembered of it. (I have an anomalously good memory for things I've written, which is one reason I write so much. It's like Delicious except Yahoo can't lose my bookmarks.)
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