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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

1401 points alankay | 3 comments | 20 Jun 16 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.862s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
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olantonan ◴[20 Jun 16 19:11 UTC] No.11940499[source]▶
Reddit commenter implying this AMA is fake. How are HN accounts verified? How do we know this is a real AMA? Just curious.
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dang ◴[20 Jun 16 19:17 UTC] No.11940555[source]▶
I personally vouch that this isn't fake. (But anyone familiar with Alan's work could tell that just from reading his comments here—who could possibly fake these?)

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940227 and marked it off-topic.

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olantonan ◴[20 Jun 16 19:22 UTC] No.11940605[source]▶
"who could possibly fake these?"

Copying from other sources. I'm not saying it's fake, just curious about verification as someone claimed so.

For instance, your "vouch", are you an official HN account. How can I tell?

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dang ◴[20 Jun 16 19:27 UTC] No.11940646[source]▶
HN has always worked informally. We don't have 'processes'; it isn't clear that we need them, and the thought of having to set them up makes my soul cry. But anyone who has concerns about fakes, abuses, and the like can always get an answer by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. We appreciate such emails because occasionally they point out actual abuses that we need to take care of!
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1. olantonan ◴[20 Jun 16 19:33 UTC] No.11940712[source]▶
Thanks for the input
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2. jsprogrammer ◴[20 Jun 16 21:16 UTC] No.11941650[source]▶
Are we viewing from the detachment pile? Or did the detachment not work? Why does the link in this thread refer to a different thread?
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3. olantonan ◴[21 Jun 16 12:04 UTC] No.11945048[source]▶
It did not work