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by tptacek 4927 days ago
Thank you, you just won me $20.
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Who was stupid enough to take the opposite bet? Of course polluting an otherwise touching and thought-provoking essay with God Talk provokes moans from those of us, thankfully many, who have no wish to see it.

It's as if someone took a few beautiful pictures of picturesque landscapes and then in the last few shots the bottom of the photo included their stinky foot and some empty cans of Bud Light. You could make $20 predicting the moans about that, too.

So true. I bet he didn't even write his essay in the right text editor.
Are you being sarcastic or are you just immature?
I won $50 for correctly predicting that Paul wouldn't change the picture that appears with the assault rifle.
Check again.
I guess I should have bet also on whether Paul would change after I made my comment.
That one was like taking candy from a baby. I hope you at least offered them a time limit, so there was SOME element of sport to it. :-)
Does HN's predictability ever perturb you?
Where by "perturb" you mean "prove lucrative for"?
Is $20 really enough to offset your disappointment?
Are you kidding? That's 54% of a startup investment!