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550 points J_tt | 1 comments | 15 Jul 20 07:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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easytiger ◴[15 Jul 20 09:06 UTC] No.23842836[source]▶
Press release pro tip: sidle in what the company or app does very early in. Verging on all of the releases I read on HN don't do this but are for companies I've not heard of. So you leave knowing almost nothing about the company
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detritus ◴[15 Jul 20 12:20 UTC] No.23844133[source]▶
This is one thing I always loved about The Economist - it didn't matter how obvious an entity might seem, they would always qualify what it is when mentioned in an article, never presuming upon their readers' knowledge, eg. "...Google, an internet search engine, ..."

- ed: typo

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easytiger ◴[15 Jul 20 13:45 UTC] No.23845105[source]▶
You have to consider than in 100 years, people may not really widely know what Google was.
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1. wmf ◴[15 Jul 20 16:45 UTC] No.23847828{3}[source]▶
But the only people reading 100-year-old articles will be historians who can/should track down those references.