The Original Container Ships

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I like short articles, though some more pictures of each type of ship are warranted. The real information to me is the mortality rates. Where was this fifty percent rate for Pacific crossings sourced from?

All your submissions are autokilled. I think that's because you only submit from a single source, (and you appear to be the only person submitting from that source) and you only have a single comment, but you'd have to email mods to find the real reason. hn@ycombinator.com

I think it's a shame that your submissions are being killed because this one, while short, seems interesting. (Actually, they're all really short. A few people complain about long-form articles not getting to the point, so they may like this site.)

There's also the dubious effectiveness of submitting culture / anthropology / environment articles to a place where people come looking for tech-startup and computer technology news.

That's emphatically wrong, and the most important thing to understand about HN. Any subject is on topic as long as it is intellectually interesting. As pg pointed out when he created this site, good hackers are interested in more than startups and computing. There's a reason why the site guidelines lead with that.

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

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