| ▲ | tobadzistsini 4 days ago |
| Not understanding the aspirin reference. |
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| ▲ | CPLX 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Pretty sure "causes Aspirin sales to soar" is an attempt at cleverly saying "gives people headaches" |
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| ▲ | dragonwriter 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Aspirin had (though this is increasingly dated) unique cultural currency as a headache medicine for quite a while after it stopped being the overwhelmingly dominant first-line OTC remedy. |
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| ▲ | IAmBroom 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Omitting clarifying information is how cool kids signal their coolness to others, and exclude uncool kids. This is even more true of HN users than it was on the actual playground. | | |
| ▲ | dragonwriter 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Titles tend to be terse, HN—by the guidelines—prefers original titles, Kleppman isn’t (AFAIK) an HN user, and the piece is ~20 years old—when a lot more of the audience wouldn't have missed the reference. | |
| ▲ | dllthomas 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yours is a response to someone providing clarifying information, something I often find helpful on HN. | |
| ▲ | cindyllm 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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