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The Mystery of Dark Oxygen

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So it might be that life started inside rocks (with tiny amounts of water) deep underground and not in the water on the surface.

Interesting. The water they speak of is also known as "primary water", which is a controversial term.

In case anyone wonders over the low vote count, for me just now, the link only briefly shows the article before swapping it for a paywall.

Careful. The last time I mentioned this issue I got told off for it!!!

Really? I'm curious as to why

Because paywalls are trivial to bypass and it's exhausting hearing people constantly complain about them. The GP in this thread has been on HN for 10 years. They should know how to bypass it by now. Hell, four minutes after they posted someone posted the bypassed link.

The FAQ even addresses it:

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

Interesting. At the time, the vote count was notably low given the post age, and there were no comments IIRC. So my thought was, to avoid the poster thinking "well that didn't work - I guess HN didn't like this - doesn't want future similar posts from me", by noting an engagement funnel bounce step they may not have been aware of. Given that paywalls are often probabalistic UX. Sort of using an empty comment thread as TFA poster DM channel?

Hmm. So, maybe, if my comment had noted the age/vote pair, and was clearer about the motivation for mentioning the paywall, that would have been less likely to create a meta discussion? And perhaps been consistent with the "don't post complaints about paywalls" policy?

just use ublock or noscript (why does that even have to be said on HN?)

https://github.com/liamengland1/miscfilters

it's a fascinating story worth reading

I actually find your comment very useful and therefore upvoted it.

> it's a fascinating story worth reading

Nod. Thus my comment, mostly aimed at the poster, that the (then) absence of votes/comments/engagement shouldn't necessarily be taken as lack of HN interest, but might reflect paywall friction. I could have been more clear, but was thinking more of supporting a dead post's postmortem, than of creating distraction on a subsequently active post. Tnx.

Strange. It is working for me without pay wall.

No adblocker

Maybe some random or cookies thing?

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