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I wouldn’t be surprised if in addition to your “the complex and opaque rules are there for everyone to follow without any leeway for a mistake, period” philosophy you also practice cannibalism.

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Please don't react to a bad comment by posting another bad one. That just makes this place worse. Moreover, it breaks the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's ad hominem.

Ad hominem is "you're an asshole and that's why you're wrong", not "you're wrong and that makes you an asshole".

That's a nice and pithy definition. Mind if I use it?

I wouldn't be surprised that in addition to your ad hominem philosophy, you were also an uneducated toad.

I'll have you know that I earned my degree at the finest toad university.

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