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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by atmosx on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:25AM (#22921877)
Indeed it is so ignorant that I was amazed by the amount of upvotes the article received on HN.
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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by ianai on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:21AM (#22922119)
Horrified and shocked. I’m deeply grateful for the technical discussions on HN. Which makes it all the harder to see such shortsighted views promulgated here.
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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by M2Ys4U on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:05AM (#22922556)
Hacker News is - in large part - a promotional activity of a set of venture capitalists.

Naturally it attracts people (although not _only_ people) who want to suck up to venture capitalists, or who share the same hyper-capitalist mindset.

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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by crispinb on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:32AM (#22922666)
... roughly equivalent to people who can use words like 'hypergrowth' with a straight face.
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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by SAI_Peregrinus on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:53AM (#22923803)
If you haven't seen it, the HN summary/parody site n-gate[0] is excellent.

[0] http://n-gate.com/

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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by crispinb on Monday April 20, 2020 @11:39PM (#22931615)
I hadn't. Thanks, that's a little gem.
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