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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

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I'm sure it was posted previously, but it's always nice to read.

The first post seems to be from 16 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1372371

This being done, I wonder what about the critique of the lifestyles of Mort, Elvis, and Einstein, three common and well-known MS personas.

Atwood had one, https://blog.codinghorror.com/mort-elvis-einstein-and-you/ but it did not get into their personal lives, I don't even know if they worked at the same company and hung out after work or did they hate each other's guts?!

Not sure what happened but I did not post this three hours ago, as the page header says. I posted it a couple of days ago. What happened?

Second chance pool, it's been a feature since before your account was created. It's a list (second link below) of submissions that didn't gain much traction and gets drawn from to add to the front page periodically. They get an artificially inflated ranking and temporarily changed submission time (which impacts ranking) to give them another chance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool - Your submission is on the third page here

https://news.ycombinator.com/invited - Another way old posts come back

Might’ve gotten a temp hold put on it since it’s a perennial repost. I’ve posted it myself a few years back!

It’s a classic, and bears resurfacing occasionally, but it would make sense to flag it for admin approval.

>they will be linked to the World Data Network. Thus everyone will be able to enjoy the equivalent of an Einstein in their own homes. Personal isolation will then be banished forever!"

1969 https://hex.ooo/library/supertoys.html

Repeat or not this is wonderful.

This one of my favorite speeches for being both educational and entertaining. It's especially gratifying to learn the background story for the mysterious Alice and Bob.

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