What is the difference in meaning with or without 'the'?
Yet Silicon Valley’s denizens are not **ones** to dwell on bad numbers.

Yet Silicon Valley’s denizens are not **the ones** to dwell on bad numbers.

Question

What is the difference in meaning with or without 'the'?
Yet Silicon Valley’s denizens are not **ones** to dwell on bad numbers.

Yet Silicon Valley’s denizens are not **the ones** to dwell on bad numbers.

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The first way says they don't dwell on bad numbers.

The second way says *someone* dwells on bad numbers, but it's not them.