[DanBC]

> I flagged this submission, I hope the usual complainers understand why.

Perhaps you could explain why you think this is flag-worthy? I could understand that you might find it unimportant, or dull. But you've flagged it, and declared that you flagged it, which suggests you have some strongly negative feeling toward it appearing here.

I'd be interested to see where you'd put this on a scale with all the other stories that get subbed to HN.

[Toshio]

> "strongly negative feeling toward it appearing here"

This isn't about feelings, I'm just adding a data point to HN ranking algorithm.

The reason I enjoy being on HN is because of this community's mindset of "let's disrupt the big, established, old players". Seen from that angle, this submission is irrelevant because it's not about disrupting a big player, it's about perpetuating a harmful monopoly.

[codeka]

But how can you expect to "disrupt the big, established, old players" if you're closing your eyes to what they're actually doing?

[DanBC]

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. -- widely attributed to Sun Tzu

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu#Ch._3