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mgratyesterday at 8:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

These are the sorts of people that deserve national holidays. Many of them come from problematic background, or had problematic politics, but when it mattered they showed up.


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wrsyesterday at 9:50 PM

Let's include the Russians Stanislav Petrov and Vasily Arkhipov, who both refused to start a nuclear war. There should be a permanent monument to all these folks in Greenland or something.

mmoossyesterday at 9:53 PM

True, but they also help create the problems that they help to solve.

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