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These reporters know there are CEO’s that sell things like water, food, and energy to huge portions of the population right? Open AI is a blip.

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The author is not a reporter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41152161

And you’re engaging in whataboutism. Actions are not excused or justified by someone else doing something different in another context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

> These reporters know

The article is an opinion piece by an external contributor; the author is not a reporter. From the end of TFA:

> Gary Marcus is a scientist, entrepreneur and bestselling author. He was founder and CEO of machine learning company Geometric Intelligence, which was acquired by Uber, and is the author of six books, including the forthcoming Taming Silicon Valley (MIT Press)

> there are CEO’s

There are CEO’s what; which possession of CEOs are you taking about?

There's more than one way to use an apostrophe y'know

Oh yes, I do. “More than one way” in more than one way, even. One such split is two ways: The right way, and the wrong way. Where, for instance, using it in “CEO’s” is the right way for a possessive, but the wrong way for a plural.

In my estimation they chose clarity over correctness; no reasonable person would mistake `CEO's` as a possessive usage, only a prescriptivist.

How does a superfluous apostrophe make anything clearer?

ISWYDT, and I don't like it. Hope you're proud of yourself for coming up with it, so at least someone gets something out of it.

Seriously? You’re going to play this game?

Welcome to Hacker News, where studied types do their nitpicking.

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