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		knicholes on Nov 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner... Video games and porn are so precious, though! I wouldn't call them a useless endeavour.

colordrops on Nov 30, 2017 [–]

I'm being facetious to make a point.

yodon on Nov 30, 2017 | [–]

Reading through the comments it looks like you’re discovering the truth in Poe’s Law [0] which roughly translates to sarcasm inevitably backfires in large persistent distributed contexts like HN or other forums.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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