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How can an acronym made from initials mean worshiping someone? In this case it's just laziness/terseness.

• Sevzinn 11y ago
  I don't see "pg.com", for one. I don't care if it is a username or something. A particular person being referenced by "hn" is just excluding people from "the club".
  • jacquesm 11y ago
    So if he was referred to as 'Paul' when there are millions of Pauls then you would have no problem with it even though then you'd need more context to know who he was but if he's refered to his particular handle on hn, on hn then that's excluding people from the club? It wasn't as if membership of that particular club was forced on you and it's not as if it is a secret. Lighten up. For that matter, plenty of people here are only known by their handles, so if you see a reference to some person and it does not make sense to you at first it's ok to assume that is a handle. We also don't do @xxx and such around here (at least, not unless someone indicates a twitter handle).
    • Sevzinn 11y ago
      It links to a website called paulgraham...do you really think using "Paul" there would confuse people? Would they type in paulsmith.com?