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by aqme28 1196 days ago
What's ironic is that at this point in time, yours is the first comment to mention him.

But I also think it's very fair for a medical device company take some scrutiny if its CEO is famous for overpromising and underdelivering.
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Vermeulen 1196 days ago
Good to see - when I posted this every comment was about Musk. I guess it just takes time on Hackernews to filter the worthwhile discussions to the top
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cabaalis 1196 days ago
Perhaps the way hn comments work. I read this page earlier this morning and all the comments were about how nobody wanted anything to do with Elon Musk. Now it is different.
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capableweb 1196 days ago
No, aqme28 is wrong. There were comments about Musk before your comment. The very first comment on this submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041016) was indeed about Musk, and also the second one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041042). Then there were others (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041092) as well mixed into the whole thing, before you made your comment about it.
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aqme28 1196 days ago
I am not wrong. The comment-ordering is not the same when I viewed the page as it was when you viewed the page.

The comments are arranged based on score and time posted. They're not going to be the same for every user who visits the page.

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capableweb 1196 days ago
Here is the same comments ordered by time rather than score: https://ditzes.com/item/35040763 (you can also go directly to https://ditzes.com/item/35040763#item-35041285 and scroll upwards, every comment above that one was made before it)

You can clearly see that there are mentions about Musk before Vermeulen made their comment.

(also, you can hover the "N minutes/hours ago" and see the timestamp on HN too, which again will show you which chronological order things were posted in)

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aqme28 1196 days ago
Why do you need me to prove this to you?

Here’s my view: https://ibb.co/W2kvvmz

You can “clearly see” that this musk comment is third.

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capableweb 1196 days ago
You said "this point in time, yours is the first comment to mention him"

I took "First" to mean in time, not order of the page. I guess I understood you wrong, because if you're talking about time, their comment was not the first to mention Musk. But I guess if you mean "first" as in "highest on the page", then you're right that it's higher up.

But as you know, comments are not ordered by time, but time + score, but somehow this point seems to be lost while crossing through the wires.

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