[dang]

You started a hell of a flamewar with this, and you contributed to perpetuating it too. That's totally not cool here.

Please follow the site guidelines, which include:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

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

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448249 and marked it off topic.