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Comment by robinduckett | Hacker News Reader

Oh, shut up Gruber. Why not put your own money, time and effort into building something? Extremely easy to write stuff like this from your Armchair you giant hypocrite.

Disclaimer: I used to love how snide this guy was when I was younger and I don't really care about Magic Leap!

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So you can ONLY point out when somebody is pulling off an obvious con, gathering billions of dollars in funds with complete vapourware, producing no deliverables of any value for 9 years — and, I reiterate, ONLY — if you have managed to make a successful company?

Good job Gruber manages to run his own full-time business, then, because apparently one isn't allowed to criticise Magic Leap.

God forbid somebody prevent others from falling victim to yet another snake-oil salesman. Better we all just quietly and blithely accept what our capitalist overlords tell us, yes? Only the successful ~~rich~~ have any right to tell us what to think!

What kind of insane gatekeeping is this? ^

> Why not put your own money, time and effort into building something?

You know he invented Markdown, right, which I'm guessing has added more real world value than anything that has ever come out of Magic Leap.

> Why not put your own money, time and effort into building something?

He did, it’s called Daring Fireball.

And markdown, a text format most of us use on a daily basis

Magic Leap put billions, years & plenty of effort in. What did they actually produce vs what they promised?

Last post I said we'd seen peak daring fyreball but I feel like we're onto season two daringer and ballsier

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