[tekla]

Only on HN will you see a recounting of a massive achievement of humankind dismissed offhandedly like this.

[dragontamer]

I'd say Zero Dark Thirty was a bad movie about a major and important event.

Calling a movie bad doesn't diminish the original event. It just criticizes the movie itself.

[jasonwatkinspdx]

Eh, the barb about "maybe you like soap operas" wasn't necessary and doesn't do the comment any favors.

[sdfghswe]

In that phrase when I said "you" I didn't mean the person I was responding to. I mean the "general you" - a hypothetical person. I didn't occur to me it could be interpreted differently. I've edited it.

[cdelsolar]

zero dark thirty was pretty good, what was wrong with it?

[yCombLinks]

In the long run the development of AI is far more significant than relatively minor skirmishes of American Imperialism.

[sdfghswe]

> tekla 10 minutes ago https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tekla

> Only on HN will you see a recounting of a massive achievement of humankind dismissed offhandedly like this.

I'm not dismissing an achievement of humankind. I'm dismissing the PR piece they put out about it.

Do you struggle to see the distinction?