Where did Machiavelli say that? Let's have a textual reference:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?auth...

Actually, not being a 20th century inspirational business writer, Machiavelli almost certainly said no such thing.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=entrepreneur&...

The only other reference I found was this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kiam

Found on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-greenberg/save-the-entrep... with blekko

"Appropriate for HN" seems to mean "HN is whatever I think it should be."

Maybe you could start up a thread or write something that addresses your perceptions so it can be discussed. Or you can keep acting like a melodramatic clown with a dog-eared dollar looking mournfully at the last functioning drink machine in a post-apocalyptic world.

A world of possibilities awaits.

"Maybe you could start up a thread or write something that addresses your perceptions so it can be discussed"

i thought about it, but i decided that there isn't any point. the site is what the users want it to be and i'm not here to "educate" them.

great analogy, btw.

From the guidelines:

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"

This.

(is he gone yet?)