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Must be hard times at the NYT when journalists have to resort to submitting their own pieces to Hacker News ;-)
It was actually submitted by a different HN user, whose profile, oddly enough, identifies him/her as working for Forbes .
Ouch... I was being tongue-in-cheek, not intentionally a jerk! :-(
From the author's submission history he has only ever submitted his own stories to Hacker News.