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I, Sharpie

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45 points delichon | 1 comments | 15 Oct 25 23:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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theamk ◴[16 Oct 25 01:54 UTC] No.45600649[source]▶
it's a bad re-telling of [0] "Sharpie found a way to make pens more cheaply by manufacturing them in the U.S.", in the style of famous "I, Pencil" essay [1]. But while original text was full of interesting technical facts with a bit of politics mixed in, this imitation has no interesting technical details.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480354

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980

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1. zem ◴[23 Oct 25 01:41 UTC] No.45677268[source]▶
I agree; I upvoted because the underlying content was still interesting, but trying to write it as an "i, pencil" pastiche did the author no favours. I would have rathered the article direct the reader to read "I, pencil" and then gone through why they disagreed with its thesis, along with the story of how sharpie manufacturing was brought to the US from china