[HN Gopher] A little-known shipwreck that inspired 'Dracula' ___________________________________________________________________ A little-known shipwreck that inspired 'Dracula' Author : Thevet Score : 51 points Date : 2023-09-02 23:35 UTC (23 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.nationalgeographic.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nationalgeographic.com) | jimmiles wrote: | https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgeographic... | popol12 wrote: | Reading this article was a waste of my time, but I'm glad it made | me think again about this great book. Gonna spend a bit of time | reading interesting stuff about it on Wikipedia. | swayvil wrote: | [flagged] | mdp2021 wrote: | You drew a heavily incomplete model, specified just a detail | ("free flow of information is in a way more effective"), and | proposed an only marginally relevant question pivoting on a | very loose interpretation of its key discriminator ("<<win>>"). | | If you just reason on abstractions you describe a dream, not a | world. | swayvil wrote: | Then add a detail if you think it's important. Be my guest. | mdp2021 wrote: | That would be a game of group sculpting some condensed | material structure out of fog. | | How can you add <<detail[s]>> when the original idea is, as | I tried to communicate, so undefined? | | You should better define your premises and question. The | idea is either clear to the proposer but not sufficiently | expressed, or not clear enough so requiring further work | for re-expression. | _dain_ wrote: | people gotta eat | swayvil wrote: | There are plenty of ways to eat that don't require smothering | the world's communication like a modern day Sauron. | umanwizard wrote: | Really? Enlighten us how journalists can live without | charging for their work (or running large amounts of | invasive ads). | swayvil wrote: | I'm sure that you're equipped with at least a minimal | imagination. No doubt you can think up a few obvious ones | as easily as me. | GenericDev wrote: | Yeah? People gotta eat - so we have to cannibalize knowledge | sharing, and destroy the internet culture with it? We need to | generate high conversion rates through obtrusive | interstitials, and antagonistic rent-seeking subscription | policies so people can eat? | | Wow - I'd rather starve. | oriettaxx wrote: | nothing interesting to me | haspoken wrote: | https://archive.ph/EKSNh | djmips wrote: | Stoker had Dracula transforming into a dog. "Hmm maybe it was | related to another shipwreck with a dog name." - Really? Was | there also a shipwreck of vampire bats? Every aspect of Dracula | was based from various wrecks on Irish shores /s ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-03 23:00 UTC)