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Great. Yet another online psuedo-intellectual "guru" with pretentious posts full of meaningless, vague trueisms. Why are posts like these so popular on Hacker News?



People are attracted with articles with pseudo-intellectual discussions, especially if they are filled with well-sounding buzz-terms like faustian bargain or overton window.




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