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andremendes | 1 year 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"?

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HPsquared|1 year ago

The 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.

xattt|1 year ago

Per 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”.

anal_reactor|1 year ago

Whales were so close to becoming the dominant species, but Icelanders fortunately stole their industrial technology in the last moment.

johnsutor|1 year ago

Long industrial technology, Short pre-industrial technology

bell-cot|1 year ago

Article'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|1 year ago

But the actual title is not too long at all

xeckr|1 year ago

There's a missing comma, OP is telling us to buy stocks in companies that are in the business of industrial technology

red_trumpet|1 year ago

Yeah weird. If it was done for length-reasons, maybe better omit the "long" instead of "before"?

datahack|1 year ago

Look you can either have AI written articles or train wreck titles written by humans. Which one do you want? /s