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Since day #1 would be a safe guess. I don't think the honor system is a good way to deal with companies so when a company writes something like that and I have no way of verifying it then I don't believe them. Worked pretty good so far.

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Just to be clear, there's no reason to believe you aren't a Chinese bot trying to sow division among western countries with this comment. It's a pretty safe guess and we have no way of verifying otherwise, after all.

Actually, there is. I've met 10's of HN'ers in person, this account is many years old and in pretty good standing, on top of that I have regular contact with the mods and many others on here IRL.

You probably should have picked a different account than mine to try this particular line with.

You missed, entirely, the point made by the person you responded to.

He didn't. By stating that he has now way of verifying he most likely meant that he exhaust all the ways, within his ability, to verify it. While the other poster made no effort to verify if Jacques is not a bot (it's easy). There's a difference in actively verifying given statements and passively accepting all that is written or all doubts that a busy mind can produce.

I think you may have missed it a bit too. jacquesm wrote:

...I have no way of verifying it then I don't believe them. Worked pretty good so far.

This can't possibly be true since one can't verify everything. If one truly lived this then they'd be in an endless quest of verifying things. For instance, verifying verifiers.

We are about to enter into an age of hard to detect AI generated articles and research so this isn't philosophical silliness.

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