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The previous comment made a joke of how despite being a capable device for education, it didn't have the features that drive commercial success. How was it unsu

• dang 5y ago
  The bar for a one-liner joke like that to count as substantive is high—it needs to include something genuinely new and clever or else it's just internet fodder, and will encourage others to make even worse posts. The GP comment was way too obvious and predictable to clear that bar, which is why it led to a lame subthread (mostly now flagkilled). The gold standard HN explanation about this was by scott_s many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=7609289&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...