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What's up with this title? At the time of writing this, it's worded as: "Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales long industrial technology" Seems
by andremendes 2y ago
What's up with this title? At the time of writing this, it's worded as:
"Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales long industrial technology"
Seems they were trying to hunt industrial tech from whales. I guess a "before" went missing before "industrial"?
- HPsquared 2y agoThe blue whales had been investing their funds in industrial technology, and the Medieval Icelanders did not like that. This unfortunate event delayed the Industrial Revolution by centuries.
- anal_reactor 2y agoWhales were so close to becoming the dominant species, but Icelanders fortunately stole their industrial technology in the last moment.
- xattt 2y agoPer Occam’s Razor, this is the most likely explanation. The title can be fixed with a simple comma, instead of some multi-character, multi-syllable word like “before”.
- johnsutor 2y agoLong industrial technology, Short pre-industrial technology
- red_trumpet 2y agoYeah weird. If it was done for length-reasons, maybe better omit the "long" instead of "before"?
- bell-cot 2y agoArticle's far-too-long-for-HN Subtitle: > New research suggests that medieval Icelanders were scavenging and likely even hunting blue whales long before industrial whaling technology
- tokai 2y agoBut the actual title is not too long at all
- bell-cot 2y ago"How Viking-Age Hunters Took Down the Biggest Animal on Earth" is far more clicky than informative.
- BurningFrog 2y agoPetty I know, but it actually bothers me that they took the whales up from the ocean, not "down".
- bell-cot 2y agoCompared to English-language horrors like the right/rite/wright/write homophones, that is a fairly minor nitpick.
- tokai 2y agoDoesn't matter. Its the title.
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- xeckr 2y agoThere's a missing comma, OP is telling us to buy stocks in companies that are in the business of industrial technology
- datahack 2y agoLook you can either have AI written articles or train wreck titles written by humans. Which one do you want? /s