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dkersten
on May 26, 2012
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How Can I Turn Small Talk Into a Conversation?
How about down voting "advice dog" and other
meme
comments lest HN be overrun by memes?
unimpressive
on May 26, 2012
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Your comment reminded of me of a hypothesis I once read about Fermi's paradox, that it may not be
physical
infection that extraterrestrials would worry about catching from humans, but
memetic
infection.
Same principle here.
Drbble
on May 27, 2012
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You just described the climax of the movie Independence Day.
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