Please don't take yet another HN thread into yet another repetition of this. It's not that it's wrong. It's that that lemon was squeezed dry years ago, the rind is hard as rock, and the spectacle of HN users gnawing on it is unseemly. It's also off topic. As is usually the case with his writing, there are genuinely interesting things to react to here.
If Wolfram's tic is a thing, the strange way the internet crystallizes on it is also a thing. In fact, it's a mirror image of the thing. Let's resist recreating that here.
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