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The standard on Hacker News is intellectually interesting.

“I saw geese,” ordinarily wouldn’t meet it (though in imagined contexts it would, of course).

Or as described in The New Yorker, HN is often about performative erudition, as perhaps is the case with this GEB’ish sentence.






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