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> hostility masked as objectivity

Well put. Thanks for posting valuable comments instead of responding in kind—it greatly improved this thread.

It takes longer for reflective and informative comments to show up than it does for reflexive ones, but they do eventually. It takes time to think and write something good. And often a thoughtful comment only gets posted because someone feels compelled to reply to a glib one. Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11184489.