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Re:The saddest, stupidest sentence I've ever read by EliAndrewC on Monday March 24, 2008 @09:52AM (#144546)
Paul Graham himself writes good essays with sensationalist titles. For example, "Microsoft is Dead" was a great essay, but he had to explain in the essay itself that he wasn't actually arguing that Microsoft is dead. This seems similar; a sensationalist title that isn't remotely true, but with some decent content.
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Re:The saddest, stupidest sentence I've ever read by pg on Monday March 24, 2008 @11:04AM (#144592)
Calling a company dead is a metaphor. Saying something is the saddest thing you've read isn't; and in fact Carr writes as if he really believed it.
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