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PEACE PRIZE [INDIA, PAKISTAN] The governments of India and Pakistan, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door. REFERENCE: Numerous news reports.

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The ringer is a single low-ranked guy, and he tries hard to wake everybody up. The plan is to sabotage their sleep, in order to have them commit blunders during negotiations.

As each party does it we obtain a "mirrored balance of error".

Wait, so is this fairly common knowledge or expected behavior?

I thought that the Ig Nobel Prize was for discovery of the evidence of something funny/interesting/unusual, not for common knowledge...

I have no information about this story, my reply was an 'hypothetical proposition'.

If it is the true explanation, then the loop is looped as it seems funny and unusual to me. May I obtain some 'Ig/Ig' (Ig on Ig) prize?

It's not common knowledge if the rest of us didn't know.

It can be local common knowledge to one country (like a tradition/custom) while not being common to another country

The fun thing is, it probably brings these two countries closer to peace than war, the same way having children play together makes it easier to develop a friendship

I'm reminded of the Whisky War, where Canada and Denmark's military leave a bottle of alcohol on a disputed island every now and then as they "capture" the island.

They don't actually do that and haven't done that for many years, it's rather less friendly nowadays because oil was discovered nearby.

Sadly, that is more constructive than the actions of one of the current nominees for the real Nobel Peace Prize, which has drifted into self parody.

Nominations aren’t really to be taken seriously.

It’s a pretty wide spectrum of people who can nominate and anyone they nominate is a nominee.

Also there are no confirmed nominees.

And just say president Trump if that’s what you are referring to. He’s not Voldemort. You can say his name.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

It's a funny side-effect of the HN "rule" against engaging in politics. We still talk politics, but must mention He Who Must Not Be Named obliquely.

ETA: Oh no.. it didn't work. I'm being downvoted :)

There are plenty of political discussions on HN. Many of them with no relevant technical data or discussion.

But reading people dance around the topic they really mean to be talking about is exhausting.

This is BS. I've written several comments mentioning Trump and Xi without a problem. If you're being downvoted it's because what you're saying isn't true.

> Nominations aren’t really to be taken seriously.

But does the prize contribute to their citation count?

You're talking about the only recent US president who didn't invade any countries?

Ignoring Yemen, Somalia, and the expansion of pre-existing wars?

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/04/trumps-dangero...

Yes, ignoring these since they started before 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

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