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Comment by DaiPlusPlus

20 hours ago

> And who ever heard of this in the majority of the world? It was news to me, I'm white and European btw.

It's a recurring headline on the rolling news channels on broadcast TV right now - and it's on the front-page of Reddit for me as well.

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Almondsetat  20 hours ago

So a project should change its name because when it will be production ready 6 years from now the 1% of the 1% of the 1% will think for 1 microsecond about a piece of news from today?

  • Lerc  20 hours ago

    Just that remember that there were people that said calling the second LOTR movie The Two Towers was disrespectful.

  • DaiPlusPlus  19 hours ago

    > So a project should change its nam

    Potentially... supposing the criminal investigation into this uncovers a hitherto unknown organ harvesting scheme operating within the global music records industry; the subsequent police dragnet implicates significant proportion of the world's music stars and record labels and generates continual major headlines and criminal convictions - with all their lurid details - all for multiple decades from now on.

    It's quite ridiculous when I put it that way, but this is basically the same thing as Epstein's network, just with a different crime; and Epstein was already in the news almost 20 years ago from his first conviction.

    ...so back in 2009, back when everyone was building their own social-network websites and online dating services, and supposing your real-name was also Epstein, so you called it "EpsteinLoveIsland.com" - would you have changed the name back then?

dingdingdang  20 hours ago

Gotta admit this was the first thing I thought of as well. Hard to focus on the code implementation with that in mind!