alt Hacker News"No one" does not literally mean "not a single individual" in common English parlance, something that everyone (see what I did there?) here understands.
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DANmode • today at 6:53 PM
It literally does mean that.
It figuratively does not.
You’re not going to change the meaning of two words, here…
Yes it does. If I'm asked how many people are in the pool and I respond "no one", that means not a single individual.