[dang]

Please omit nationalistic flamebait from your posts to HN, regardless of which country it's about. It may not have led to a nationalistic flamewar in this case, but statistically it very much does, and such threads are the opposite of what we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[whack]

Sorry, that certainly wasn't my intention, and I'll be more mindful in future