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0 pointsmountainriver3y ago0 comments

This is the obvious answer

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No. It's the answer that fulfills your own confirmation bias. "Obvious" is never a word you should use when you can quantify the truth.

pessimizer3y ago

No, it's the obvious answer, so it's less interesting to speculate about than alternative, less obvious answers.

CabSauce3y ago

Or HN traffic is down. Or people don't hire into the holiday season, or tech is down. There are countless things that could drive that number. We can't tell from a few monthly counts.

moffkalast3y ago

Perhaps _too_ obvious.

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