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by masklinn 1279 days ago
> It's very disappointing to see how skeptical HN has become about new technology.

Completely made up nonsense with no evidence is not "new technology".

> That there's progress by Boom

Is there though? PR is not progress.
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kitd 1279 days ago
Completely made up nonsense with no evidence

Citation?

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goodSteveramos 1279 days ago
this is a really funny comment if you think about it. Instead of simply presenting the evidence, you demand that he prove there is none. Quite a bold demand. got to respect that on some level. If you disagree, prove there isn't any evidence that Im right.
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kitd 1279 days ago
Not so. He is the one who made the original statement. The onus of proof is on him to show what is "completely made up". It's a fairly extreme statement after all.
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masklinn 1279 days ago
No, the original statement is that there is “new technology” which HN is “skeptical of”.

The evidentiary requirements for a dismissal are no higher than what they dismiss. Which in this case is a PR bit completely devoid of evidence, so 0.

But if you’ re interested in evidence I actually scratched a bit at one of the names mentioned, and I can’t say I’m impressed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33983419#33996877

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kitd 1279 days ago
Sorry, but that wasn't his statement. It's quite clear that he states that what is presented as new technology is completely made up nonsense. He may be right, but he needs to show what in the article is completely made up nonsense so that we know if he is.
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masklinn 1279 days ago
> Sorry, but that wasn't his statement.

It was my statement, and it was a reply to the previous unsupported assertion which I quoted here.

> It's quite clear that he states that what is presented as new technology is completely made up nonsense.

Yes.

> He may be right, but he needs to show what in the article is completely made up nonsense so that we know if he is.

There is jack shit in the article supporting the existence or likelihood of "new technology". It's window dressing, a PR release with no meat or bones promising a bright and spotless future out of essentially nothing. It has as much technological content as Blindsight, Altered Carbon, or I, Robot. Possibly less.

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