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by nhebb 2859 days ago
This is the perfect response. I assume you're being sarcastic, but I can't tell for certain. Even most humans have trouble detecting sarcasm in print - would a sarcasm detector?

Since sarcasm is the biggest weakness of sentiment analysis, I don't have much faith that sentiment analysis tools will produce truthful results when aimed at social media.
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perl4ever 2859 days ago
"I assume you're being sarcastic, but I can't tell for certain"

What if the person you're responding to (for the sake of argument) really doesn't know?

I mean, it can take some time to find out if an invention is truly useful.

So if we point it at that statement and demand a verdict, it's sort of an undecidable problem.

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gerdesj 2859 days ago
This is the perfect response. I assume you're being sarcastic, but I can't tell for certain.

No, it is simply a good response. I'm British (and have special skills) and can inform you that satherx is either rather obviously sarcastic or a lemon.

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