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Dupe "New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28121929

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The submission is currently in the second-chance pool and we rarely see these marked as dupes, so I suppose it is fine.

If you don't know this list yet, it can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

Does it count as a dupe if the original post is too old to reply to? (Genuinely curious)

yes, 1 year. From the FAQ:

> Are reposts ok?

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

Thanks, I totally missed that - good to know.

that's pretty vague, first of all last month is in the last year; even if we assume in the last year to mean longer than a year ago the or so part can also imply leeway before that year is out (this is of course a regional usage, most places in U.S I think take last year or so to mean a year or more)

usage of vernacular speech while humanizing also has the effect of making things inexact.

And that's why we invented math!

yeah without math I wouldn't know I got downvoted from 1 to 0!

+1 for math. :^)

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