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Re:Subverted Design by toufka on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:22PM (#16188430)
Read the source code - most of those dialogues ("only X left!") are hard-coded random numbers and are in no way correlated to actual inventory or demand information. Said another way, they are lies [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15297915&goto=news

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Re:Subverted Design by abritinthebay on Saturday January 20, 2018 @04:47AM (#16192787)
That’s an implementation detail tho - not a design one. So my point about the complaint still stands.
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Re:Subverted Design by design on Saturday January 20, 2018 @10:30AM (#16193657)
It speaks to the intention behind the design, which apparently isn't user value.
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