[throwaway90446]

Unable to reply to your other flagkilled comment, so I'll reply here.

It's amusing that bringing up facts in a community ostensibly self-selected to prize discovery and reason is sufficient cause to be silenced.

pg and the community he fostered has come a long way since this: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

[xxxyy]

Yes, that is absolutely correct. And I find it sad that such thoughtless mechanisms are exactly what powered the worst forms of racism in the history.

Edit: would just like to point out that I was flagkilled before any response came, so currently my post is invisible in this thread.