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Dude, he also has a $70 million jet, which costs about as much as a yacht. Let's be honest here.

> If you want to pass judgment on what is and what is not frugality when it comes to billionaires, you need to expand your views a bit and stop thinking like a poor person.

Also :-)))

We're not talking poor here. We're talking "makes more money in 1 month than the richest lawyer you know" rich.

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> Dude, he also has a $70 million jet, which costs about as much as a yacht. Let's be honest here.

First, I am not your dude.

Second, please, read the comment before you respond. I addressed it.

$70M is a drop in the ocean when you are in tens of billions of dollars especially when it is your work tool that lets you move fast between locations and save couple of hours on each trip.

> First, I am not your dude.

Maybe you are?

Sure, but he's not your buddy, guy.

Chiming I here. “Dude …” is a dumb thing to say in a debate. Please take take that over to Reddit.

Also chiming in here, it's not a big deal at all to call someone "dude", because this isn't a formal debate, it's just a web forum.

… the steady decline of HN over the decades …

The person complaining about saying "dude" already lowered the tone of the drasticaly debate by saying, apparently without a hint of irony, "stop thinking like a poor person." So I agree there's a lot of low quality, revolting posts here but the use "dude" doesn't really scratch the surface.

> “Dude …” is a dumb thing to say in a debate.

Is it insulting?

As a part of a retort in an argument, it’s similar to rolling one’s eyes. It’s also not substantive.

No, but it is annoying and when in a debate it tries to distract and/or claim some kind of familiarity or higher ground.

The comment I replied to had already lost any sort of higher ground at:

> stop thinking like a poor person.

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