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Re:You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping by benologist on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @02:36PM (#5669866)
It's not newsworthy it's just the latest piece of random bla bla written for HN to advertise a startup completely unrelated to the subject matter.

AKA growth hacking.

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Re:You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping by stephengillie on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @02:49PM (#5669952)
Yea -- this is advertising for the 42floors brand. What they're saying doesn't have to have anything to do with their product or brand, merely seeing that they're saying stuff puts their brand back in front of our eyeballs.
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Re:You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping by voidlogic on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:23PM (#5670531)
It looks like people don't like this being pointed out. My comment went from +5 to -2...
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Re:You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping by stephengillie on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @05:05PM (#5670776)
Were the downvotes for building a strawman argument and using it troll?
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Re:You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping by voidlogic on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @06:18PM (#5671194)
Seeing as I never disagreed with anything the author said I'd be interested to know what the strawman argument in question here is.

I did note that I think: 1. The post seemed like marketing/self promotion for his brand using a personal issue as cover and draw attention to his businesses blog. If this was a personal blog I would have no issue. 2. Many people who do not suffer from the disorder are going to use it as justification for their behaviour.

I don't see how those concerns are trolling.

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