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In case you're wondering, you're being downvoted because you're not supposed to say things like "this is interesting" or "I agree" on HN. Comments are supposed to have content to them. Otherwise they should just be in the form of upvotes.

Check out the link I posted elsewhere to the Planet Money episode on tipping.

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got to love HN's unwritten rules.

who's unwritten? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If this is a rule, it actually is unwritten. There's nothing in the guidelines that says to upvote instead of writing "I agree" comments.

However, this is a de facto rule because people will downvote such comments, so I thought it was worth warning people about.

Watch out, there's also an unwritten rule that forbids commenting on the unwritten rules. Wait... Uh Oh, now I've broken it too.

If HN comments were IE8 JavaScript interpreter, you would have just created a stack overflow from too much recursion.

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