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miltonlostlast Monday at 10:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

Also got to love the linguistic coincidence of Crabs and Cancer and how tech companies grow ever larger (monopolistic) to the detriment of their host (the greater economy/humanity)


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jounkerlast Monday at 10:35 PM

It’s not a linguistic coincidence. The disease is named after the animal.

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Ygg2last Monday at 10:33 PM

It's not a coincidence. Cancer means crab, because the earliest known physicians saw tumors and thought they looked like crabs.