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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by shawn on Saturday September 08, 2018 @07:21PM (#17943364)
The mood detection may as well be RNG.

I have an even better way to identify who is an expert on HN. Say "It's silly that X still isn't a thing." If X is a thing, you'll get ten people telling you why you're wrong within ten minutes. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941772

You'll have to trade some karma for the answer though.

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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by mattnewton on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:04PM (#17943906)
What else is karma for? :D I have seen this technique used to great effect inside large companies too. People will spend a lot of effort telling you why you are dead wrong.
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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by mr_toad on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:31PM (#17944001)
https://www.xkcd.com/386/
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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by shawn on Sunday September 09, 2018 @01:54AM (#17944564)
Just to raise the visibility of this: lettergram's HNProfile project is awesome. It identified both of my alt accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944348
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