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I wonder if this has anything to do with the fake 1TB USB drives John Carmack bought and wrote about on Twitter. Edit: well thanks for the downvotes... anyone

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fake 1TB USB drives John Carmack bought and wrote about on Twitter. Edit: well thanks for the downvotes... anyone want to me what I did wrong?

pgrote 7y ago
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1215844056091320321 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1215844056091320321
lorenzhs 7y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say you're being downvoted because a tweet from John Carmack is not influential enough (by several orders of magnitude) to cause policy change at a company the size of Amazon.
- pixelpoet 7y ago
  I figured he has plenty of followers to ignite some kind of larger discussion about policy, just a few days after tweeting about it. I guess we don't reply to disagree these days, just downvote. Serves me right, I'll keep it to myself rather; might as well have made a troll comment about Trump or something, didn't expect that at HN.
  - lorenzhs 7y ago
    It's a tweet with 139 retweets and 1400 likes. If you think that would influence Amazon, I have a bridge to sell you. And it's not like this was a previously unknown issue.
    - pixelpoet 7y ago
      > If you think that would influence Amazon, I have a bridge to sell you. You know I didn't even presuppose it, I dared to wonder out loud if it might be related since I'd seen an example of this Amazon counterfeiting just the other day from a somewhat well-known guy called John Carmack. Maybe there would have been some interesting discussion, I dunno; but it looks like no one is selling any bridges, just downvoting questions. You're probably right, and I never disagreed with you; thanks for the snark.
    - pixelpoet 7y ago
      It can be argued that the entire recent resurgence of VR started with a few random comments of support from that same John Carmack.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with the fake 1TB USB drives John Carmack bought and wrote about on Twitter. Edit: well thanks for the downvotes... anyone

by pixelpoet 7y ago

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fake 1TB USB drives John Carmack bought and wrote about on Twitter. Edit: well thanks for the downvotes... anyone want to me what I did wrong?

pgrote 7y ago
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1215844056091320321 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1215844056091320321
lorenzhs 7y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say you're being downvoted because a tweet from John Carmack is not influential enough (by several orders of magnitude) to cause policy change at a company the size of Amazon.
- pixelpoet 7y ago
  I figured he has plenty of followers to ignite some kind of larger discussion about policy, just a few days after tweeting about it. I guess we don't reply to disagree these days, just downvote. Serves me right, I'll keep it to myself rather; might as well have made a troll comment about Trump or something, didn't expect that at HN.
  - lorenzhs 7y ago
    It's a tweet with 139 retweets and 1400 likes. If you think that would influence Amazon, I have a bridge to sell you. And it's not like this was a previously unknown issue.
    - pixelpoet 7y ago
      > If you think that would influence Amazon, I have a bridge to sell you. You know I didn't even presuppose it, I dared to wonder out loud if it might be related since I'd seen an example of this Amazon counterfeiting just the other day from a somewhat well-known guy called John Carmack. Maybe there would have been some interesting discussion, I dunno; but it looks like no one is selling any bridges, just downvoting questions. You're probably right, and I never disagreed with you; thanks for the snark.
    - pixelpoet 7y ago
      It can be argued that the entire recent resurgence of VR started with a few random comments of support from that same John Carmack.
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