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by vixen99·16y ago·view on hn ↗
Doesn't news about, and information for start-ups figure largely on Hacker News? Isn't the latter's purpose to make money, preferably lots of it? I should have thought any discussion about money, albeit culled from a famous novel is indeed relevant here.

As one-sentence put-downs go, yours' is fine especially for use at noisy parties but I find them kind of annoying because they're high on emotion and mere opinion, as in 100% and low, as in 0%, on substantive reasons to believe the relevant assertion.

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It was actually an analysis completely devoid of emotion and with little opinion: I would see it as prima facie true that the statements made in the article are unsubstantiated by anything other than speculation. Moreover, I specifically did not give a critique of Atlas Shrugged because there are a veritable deluge of them in the HN archives.

Here's a discussion if you're interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041751.

I should have thought any discussion about money... is indeed relevant here.

No... I would think it would be trivially obvious why this is not the case.

Atlas Shrugged is Fisher Price philosophy (I'm a philosophy minor). We don't even see it worth discussing simply because the biggest assumptions in her arguments are placed as axioms.