[pinky1417]

I agree. And I say this with all due respect to tdk, unless you want to be a "typical Hacker News blowhard," don't make irrelevant critiques! It's this kind of stuff that gets me riled up about HN comments. This, and the classic "No. You're wrong..." brusque replies.

We get it, you don't like the style of the article (and you might not like the style of the New Yorker), but why does that matter? The article used paragraphs, was free of grammatical errors, and was highly readable.

[tdk]

This was why I flagged it 'OT', which means "Off Topic", i.e. irrelevant.

Different forums have different conventions, and judging by the downvotes even flagged OT is not OK here. I've learned my lesson.