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		dang 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35463012

frainfreeze 7 months ago [–]

How comes your karma points halved?

pvg 7 months ago | | [–]

That is natural canadon decay. Think uranium slowly turning into lead, that sort of thing.

ot 7 months ago | | [–]

Karma is stored in a 16 bit integer. It overflowed.

frainfreeze 7 months ago | | [–]

That's cool

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