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Comment by immibis

4 days ago

Funny to see even the NSA makes the mistake of calling a network an ASN (maybe because it's their name backwards), which is like saying I deposited money in my IBAN, or my neighbour lives in the string "123 Main Street", or Hacker News is an interesting DNS name full of great content.

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b00ty4breakfast  4 days ago

Hi, it's me, The Language Fairy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

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