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When confronted about this on Hacker News, Austen defended himself with:

> I did say the hiring rate of a cohort of one student was 100%. And in the same tweet I said, in all caps BUT VERY SMALL SAMPLE SIZE. Odd how that doesn’t make the article, don’t you think?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813371

Incidentally, it did make it into the article he's referring to, twice.

I've been in a lot of from arguments but never had one where I was later proven right by the federal government. That's quite the feather in your cap.

Incidentally, comments like the one you made back in 2021 are part of what make HN so great, thanks.

I could almost respect the hilarity of this defense if it weren't about him having scammed people for (in aggregates) millions

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