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blaufuchsyesterday at 5:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

Did I miss something here? Or is Bonesaw just completely trolling?

>The true population of the world, Bonesaw said, was significantly less than 1 billion people.

Even if we assume Bonesaw is correct and China has 500M people, India has 300M people in the cities and 0 rural population... that's only 200M left to reach 1B between all of the Americas/Europe/Africa and the rest of Asia.


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flerchinyesterday at 5:55 PM

Was that a mistranslation, and instead the meaning is that the true population is 1 billion fewer than the generally accepted ~8 billion people? So more like 7 billion?

indoordin0sauryesterday at 5:41 PM

Maybe he's trolling, maybe he's a schizo or a conspiracy theorist. Regardless, the author thinks (as do I) that this is obviously ridiculous.

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