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Yes I'm sure the experts didn't think of the first idea to pop into both of our heads when they published their scientific paper in PNAS. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0813385106

However I'm more curious how a skeleton eats, can you elaborate?

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Please make your substantive points without being snarky.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I agree the snark was unnecessary, but in that moment I didn't have the time to think of a way to say that without it being perceived as worse than what I did playfully say.

Anyway, wrist slap accepted. I will do better in the future.

Edit: from that page, what's the meaning of the sentence "Edit out swipes."?

HN comments shouldn't contain swipes or putdowns, but of course those have a way of sneaking in to one's comments anyhow, so that guideline is asking people to re-read what they've posted and, if they notice a swipe, to edit it out.

Ok, I did what I criticise others for doing, being the armchair critic. Taken on the chin.

As for the goat skeleton, it eats when the goat eats, you know what I was saying.

> As for the goat skeleton, it eats when the goat eats, you know what I was saying.

I'm not sure why, but this conversation reminded me of this old video. What a trip down (bizarro) memory lane.

https://youtu.be/WQO-aOdJLiw

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