[tptacek]

Which is fine! But as community we do have a somewhat annoying tic of fixating on a small set of axioms and trying to extrapolate everything else from them, when a lot of things you can just look up the answers. Even competing authorities, if our cites conflict, is usually a more interesting (and curious!) conversation than a bunch of nerds making it up as they go along.

When nobody has a cite, we're just going to noodle and be wrong about stuff and that's fine, even salutary. But sometimes the truth-seeking we do is kind of superfluous.

(I'm just writing this so it doesn't sound like I was just snarking about HN.)