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0ren | 13 years ago

A discussion from 2008:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209955

A lot of the current post seems to be taken straight from there. Compare, for example:

> in Alzheimer’s patients their short-term memory hardly works at all, but the long-term memory is still active. They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home.

with Goebel's quote:

> 'Their short-term memory hardly works, but the long-term memory is still active. They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home.'

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