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No I do have an idea, and I think you'd be better off not making silly assumptions. I was unemployed and living in my car for 18 months in SV, because I wasn't
by tsunamifury 11y ago
No I do have an idea, and I think you'd be better off not making silly assumptions. I was unemployed and living in my car for 18 months in SV, because I wasn't yet tech-trained in 2009. If you were an engineer casting your cold eye on the world, I'm sure you turned your nose up at the millions of us who were't in tech then. Or maybe we just didn't count us as real people.
- pfarnsworth 11y agoYour past experiences are truly irrelevant to the point you made and what I was responding to. And your ad hominem attacks are misplaced as well. You have admitted you didn't go through the 2001 bust, so you, by definition, have no idea what it was like. Dismissing talk of 2016 being a bad year as doom-saying, exaggerating or self-aggrandizing clearly shows you have no idea how bad it can get for the industry as a whole. I don't care if you were unemployed and living in a car for 18 months in 2009/2010, because it's irrelevant to the point. There are plenty of people unemployed and living in cars even during the dotcom boom. But 2009/2010 weren't anything compared to the depths of the dotcom bust.
- dang 11y agoThe user you're replying to was too aggressive in their comment, but you're doing that as well. Please just be nice when commenting here.
- pfarnsworth 11y agoNo, I wasn't too aggressive at all. I used very unaggressive words, on purpose in fact. What's worse than two people disagreeing is some nanny police or censorship mod who is overly policing every single word used. Please don't turn HN into that kind of forum.
- dang 11y agoIt sounds like I misread you.