Agreed, true insight like hers would be valuable. People who have no stakes theire, just reflecting from a unbiased outsider perspective.
No cultural or counter-cultural pushing to reach whatever results fit ones current perspective.
Yes they are. Every single other one of her posts for the last month is flag flagged - and this one is only not killed because I vouched it. Turn on showdead and view her comments. (NB if she has written to HN and got the account un-banned before you do this the posts will probably be un-killed.)