We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10674462 and marked it off-topic.

This is the sort of reflexive hit-meme that people trot out at every opportunity, but it adds no information and leads to no insightful discussion. It's merely a way of being uncharitable, and like most predictable things, is utterly tedious, which means it shouldn't be here.

Those of you who disagree are invited to imagine the world repeating the most misconstruable thing you said when you were 19.