alt Hacker NewsNeat read on the whole, but was fun to see how huge the author believes Estonia is:
> When Estonia, for example, became independent of the Soviet Union, some 245 million square miles of collectivist farmlands were simply abandoned.
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closewith • yesterday at 6:54 PM
Common enough error in the US when dealing with square meters abbreviated to sq m. Only off but a factor of 2.6 million.
But yes, it does call into question the rest of the fact checking.
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bryanrasmussen • yesterday at 4:22 PM
I mean it's sort of hard to believe anything they say.
To convert that figure to a more relatable number: the surface area of the Earth is just about 197 million square miles. With such an error I'm having a hard time trusting the article content.