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		medstrom on Sept 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 emp... Basically, it means "explain". The connotation is the opposite of straw-man, so OP wants people to start from the assumption that it's true they need all those 7,400 employees, and explain why this would be the case. OP is not looking for cynical explanations such as that they only have so many employees due to incompetence.

globular-toast on Sept 29, 2022 [–]

"Explain" was the only possibility I came up with and was wondering how on earth OP got an autocomplete error to the word "steelman".

What a grossly unnecessary word.

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