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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 18 July 2014 07:52:17AM *  6 points [-]

The basilisk seems to pretty much be the first thing outsiders know to associate with LW these days.

Comment author: Manfred 18 July 2014 08:58:14AM 11 points [-]

Well, for Charlie Stross it's practically professional interest :P

Anyhow: anecdote. Met an engineer on the train the other day. He asked me what I was reading on my computer, I said LW, he said he'd heard some vaguely positive things, I sent him a link to one of Yvain's posts, he liked it.