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Different phrasing, but I had posted basically the exact same idea on HN and gotten tons of upvotes a few weeks earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325103

I only posted it because one of my friends told me about hearing a speaker bringing up the idea at a conference, but it's an idea that's been around for decades.

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Few days? HN bug?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325103 > 2659 days ago

He meant that he posted it prior to blue_beetle's comment in 2010. I had claimed that blue_beetle was the first person to put it on the internet, and he posted proof that he had posted a similar idea before blue_beetle did.

Alex3917 is either a time traveler or he's got superhuman memory. Speculation: 3917 is his mother year.

The reason I remember it is because I posted it as a HN comment, and then a few weeks later someone basically rewrote it into a blog post and got tens of millions of page views and tons of mainstream media coverage. Had that not happened, there's no way I'd remember now.

The source of that article was posted 2659 days ago. Maybe Alex3917 is a time traveler? (Welcome to 2017 Alex, sorry about everything).

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