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ok_dad on Dec 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salar...

> without going over 80 chars

The tyranny of the horse's ass, or rather the 60's terminal, strikes again.

(reference: the width of train tracks are rumored to be based on the width of a horse's ass, from ye olden days.)

aebtebeten on Dec 14, 2022 [–]

It goes back well past the 60's terminal, all the way to the size dollar bills had had, when punched cards were invented.

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