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By all appearances ‘alephnerd’ is just some rando on the internet, not some bonafide genius, not some Vietnam expert, not even proficient with Vietnamese public

• NemoNobody 3y ago
  Ok, MichaelZuo - am I not supposed to be thinking that all of you are some randos on the Internet?? Bc that's exactly what I think about everyone on the Internet - do you actually just take some people's opinions or statements as bonafide truth just bc "they seem credible" Think for yourself and just assume everyone is a fake identity bc 99% of the time that's going to be true - that's one of them "safe" assumptions where you actually look more like an ass if you don't make it.
  • MichaelZuo 3y ago
    It’s an interesting point but the actual technical discussions on HN wouldn’t work if we don’t “just take some people's opinions or statements as bonafide truth just bc "they seem credible"”, there would be much too long of a sussing out process for the forum paradigm to be tractable.
• squigz 3y ago
  > By all appearances ‘alephnerd’ is just some rando on the internet, not some bonafide genius, not some Vietnam expert, not even proficient with Vietnamese publications, etc… And this doesn't apply to you, because... your username might be a real name?
  • MichaelZuo 3y ago
    Have you lost track of the comment chain? It may or may not apply to me, I frankly don’t care which way you think about it. Likely no passing reader does, since they can check for themselves.