This was mildly funny: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600888

Related recent discussion:

>Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445593 (33 comments)

Thiel's influence?

So, to de-extinct them probably would be too controversial as they were a pest?

>The locusts not only ate the grass and valuable crops, but also leather, wood, sheep's wool, and—in extreme cases—even clothes off peoples' backs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust#Last_maj...

What if a mad scientist would do that? :)

UPD Found a reddit discussion on the topic: https://old.reddit.com/r/megafaunarewilding/comments/17gxmux...

NYT's paywall is softer than FT's or WSJ's - just deleting domain cookies is enough to bypass.

"Trump Adviser" = David Sacks

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367015

Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368135

Also sulfur: https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-chokepoint-we-missed-sulfur-ho...

Dang told me in 2019 that HN gets 150M page views a month, so it's not that obscure actually:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201120

150m page views a month is peanuts and very far away from the "social" networks numbers. I don't have those numbers, but I know how many page views we had 2011 while running a german browser game community.

The internet seems to have grown massively within the past couple years (unfortunately, almost certainly because of bots). I bet the number today is orders of magnitude higher.

I would bet money that HN's traffic is not orders of magnitude higher than 2020. HN is not as popular as HNers think it is.

We don't disagree. The extra traffic is almost if not entirely bots (especially scrapers)