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Paul Slade

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Paul Slade's personal blog at planetslade.com covers history and writing. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Paper Chase: Lobby Lud in London (1927)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for a post on Chinese funeral money, also called hell money, which one commenter says has expanded to other goods. It is cited in a thread about sending messages to the afterlife.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Paper Chase: Lobby Lud in London (1927)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. You can try to sell photos of heaven (although he got mocked for it), so I guess you could sell this. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35944680 It reminds me of Chinese Funeral Money, which has expanded to other goods. http://www.planetslade.com/hell-money.html I would much rather someone sell a service of "take messages to the afterlife" than set themselves up as a medium and pretend to speak to the dead, but…

    Comment linking /hell-money.html

    on “Ask HN: Turn dying Christians into a messenger service to the afterlife?”
  2. Submitted Chinese Hell Money (2014) as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Paper Chase: Lobby Lud in London (1927) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Hell Money as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted History of Kit Williams' Masquerade (2010) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Paper Chase: Lobby Lud in London (1927) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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