[chaisan]

its just comparing the cost of the best solution found to the best known cost we had before. O(N). why optimistic?

[yorwba]

If you have showdead on, you can see that this account posts generic oneliners: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=balinha_8864

[big-chungus4]

Is that bad?

[yorwba]

It's an indication that it's one of the many bot accounts currently doing the same thing https://hn.algolia.com/?query=this%20is%20more%20nuanced%20t...

So the reason the comment appears weirdly disconnected from the content of the article is that it was generated independently from the content of the article.