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by pinaceae 3264 days ago
It is tradecraft language from a different area.

Just like most HN discussions sound utterly alien to outsiders.

Sociology, Philosophy, Economics, CS ... all different trade languages.

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Tradecraft from another area? Paul Graham, at least, has his doubts about that: http://www.paulgraham.com/copy.html .
If you have no interest in what's being said, nor anything to say, then we can all agree it's not in your interests to bother with a trade language.

The discussion here is pretty clear evidence that something has been said. You may find it unnecessarily obtuse from a layman's perspective, but so is any legal contract, math textbook, or CS theory article. Trade languages exist for a reason.

"Myriad ways" is still windy pompousness.