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Comment by thrdbndndn | Hacker News Reader

I suggest not putting a UTC+8 timezone graph as header image, when the conclusion is he's likely from Eastern Europe (not saying you should put one showing EET timezone instead).

I understand that people should read the full article instead of drawing any conclusion from a mere image, but lots of people don't (hence why clickbait works). I also think it's a little tasteless, if not misleading.

Disclaimer: I'm a Chinese.

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how is it tasteless? the only fact is that, almost always, Jia Tan's timezone was UTC+8.

the rest is mostly speculation about where else they could have been from given holidays and times

The whole enterprise is a little tasteless with a chance of worse. Not some substacker or tweeter speculating in itself - people are obviously free to let their speculation flag fly. But you start amplifying this stuff on an open internet messageboard and next thing you know, it's reddit 'found' the Boston bomber. The local downsides outweigh the gawking value and I say this as a dyed-in-the-wool internet gawker.

It seems no more misleading than Jia Tan assuming an identity based on git commit timestamps…

export TZ=Z will just tag all your commits in UTC.

Just a heads up for the next guy...

Write a script to select a (random) time zone so all your commits are within an hour of noon local time zone time :)

> understand that people should read the full article instead of drawing any conclusion from a mere image, but lots of people don't

People who don’t read the article and find themselves lacking an informed or nuanced understanding of the contents of said article are the only ones to blame here. Full stop.

That HN doesn’t have a culture of shaming those who don’t read the article is partly the fault of the rules here which finds “read the article please” to be a distraction/nuisance but don’t mind that this often results in misinformed discussion propagating toward the top of a thread.

By that logic there is also nothing wrong with clickbaity titles, which I disagree.

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