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by dang 856 days ago
Ok, but can you please make your substantive points informatively? Just putting someone else or the community down doesn't help. It just makes the thread shallow and dyspeptic.

If you know more than others do, that's great, but then please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn (edit: like you did here! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36330052) If you don't want to do that, that's fine too, but in that case the thing to do is remind oneself that the internet is more or less wrong about everything and move on.

I know it's tempting to leave an empty negative comment to relieve oneself of annoyance, but this is the worst choice, at least on HN. It not only isn't the curious conversation we're looking for, it actively impedes it.

p.s. You're a good HN commenter generally - so thanks for that!

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