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Here's what I said to Nathan: "You can’t sell to ANY of those people." And he can't. Are you just quibbling for the sake of quibbling?

• ig1 14y ago
  Fair enough, I assumed by "You" that you were referring to "You" at large rather than Nathan specifically.
  • ahoyhere 14y ago
    Er, you did? The whole post was a log of an actual conversation I had with Nathan, which I made as clear as a person could possibly make it. The headline is "Me & Nathan Talking About His App Experiment." What really happened here isn't that you misread, but that you didn't read.
    • ig1 14y ago
      "I know Hacker News types think that’s a great list of niches, but it’s actually a really terrible one. You can’t sell to ANY of those people." Even as a conversation between two people it's ambiguous what the "you" means, in spoken english it would be distinguished by emphasis. For example "YOU can’t sell to any of those people." would imply the speaker is referring specifically to the addressee, but "You can’t sell to ANY of those people." would imply a generic "you" referring to the general case of being able to sell to those people.