> ‘alpehnerd’ looks like a random pseudonym account to me

And based on karma, it appears to be an account that people have found more helpful than yours!

If this thread is anything to go by, the author seems both knowledgeable and reasonable whereas you’ve been needlessly hostile throughout.

Frankly, judging HN accounts based on total karma, and not based on comment/submission history, real world credibility, etc…, is bizarre. (I’ve never encountered before someone who genuinely believe this)

But I digress, Did you read my comments to the end? If so, and you still decline to check, then here’s the gist:

The ‘knowledgeable’ comments are likely confabulated by someone who has never even picked up a bonafide economic statistic publication in the original Vietnamese, or made even a single inquiry to an actual decision making entity in Hanoi. Maybe they are half true, being generous.

If pointing this out counts as ‘hostile’, then I don’t care enough to address this claim, but I’m glad to be doing a public service for those who would have been misled.

The app I use to read HN doesn't even display up votes or karma and I can't see my past comments - I only just realized this was a thing and I've never got around actually looking at it.

If I don't have negative karma I'd be surprised and this is obviously not my real name, it's not a throw away but it might as well be.

If I say 1 + 1 is 2 tho it's still 2 tho. Truth can come from any mouthpiece, even Trump can ramble his way into a true statement occasionally, and even in that example, said truth cannot be refuted simply bc he is a liar most of the time.

Haha, I've never ever thought like "oh, thank God that person that disagrees with me has such low credibility that I don't have to defend my ideas" - that's kinda sad actually

> ‘alpehnerd’ looks like a random pseudonym account to me, why would I be demanding justifications

What does this even have to do with anything?

By all appearances ‘alephnerd’ is just some rando on the internet, not some bonafide genius, not some Vietnam expert, not even proficient with Vietnamese publications, etc…

If they had inside scoop in Hanoi, then I could maybe believe it.

> By all appearances ‘alephnerd’ is just some rando on the internet, not some bonafide genius, not some Vietnam expert, not even proficient with Vietnamese publications, etc…

And this doesn't apply to you, because... your username might be a real name?

Have you lost track of the comment chain?

It may or may not apply to me, I frankly don’t care which way you think about it. Likely no passing reader does, since they can check for themselves.

Ok, MichaelZuo - am I not supposed to be thinking that all of you are some randos on the Internet??

Bc that's exactly what I think about everyone on the Internet - do you actually just take some people's opinions or statements as bonafide truth just bc "they seem credible"

Think for yourself and just assume everyone is a fake identity bc 99% of the time that's going to be true - that's one of them "safe" assumptions where you actually look more like an ass if you don't make it.

It’s an interesting point but the actual technical discussions on HN wouldn’t work if we don’t “just take some people's opinions or statements as bonafide truth just bc "they seem credible"”, there would be much too long of a sussing out process for the forum paradigm to be tractable.