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> Welcome to Hacker News, where people's conflict of interests are not disclosed.

A statement about Hacker News that could just as easily be made about the world in general doesn't carry any information about HN. Many (perhaps most) of the claims I read about HN fall in this bucket.

> If you can pay $100/hr for an anonymous 'personal assistant' you can pay for a real personal assistant.

Isn't this a matter of batch sizes? I might pay $100 for the occasional hour but couldn't hire a full-time personal assistant. I wouldn't hire a full-time accountant or dentist either.