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josfredoyesterday at 8:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

He is with certainty not ordinary, precisely because of the feat. So a “an ordinary guy did x” statement would be false.


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bell-cotyesterday at 9:14 PM

The point is that he came to the table with "ordinary" talents, equipment, skills, financial resources, etc.

That he had to get extremely focused on the task, and devote years to it, is pretty well spelled out in the article's title.

gremlinunderwayyesterday at 10:01 PM

Jesus christ this is pedantic. You do understand that not all statements can be universally distilled to true or false right? That there's nuance and opinion here right?