[HN Gopher] A little-known shipwreck that inspired 'Dracula'
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       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
        
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