Comment by centimeter | Hacker News Reader

Comment by centimeter | Hacker News Reader

This article is absolute garbage. It’s embarrassing that it got this high on the front page.

It has zero information. It’s a paean to smug, unconsidered mediocrity.

Not only is the premise of the tenuous analogy likely completely wrong (the preponderance of evidence suggests eating “mostly plants” is, in fact, anywhere from bad to terrible for you, depending on your choice of plants), but the way in which it’s presented is absurd as well; paying lip service to “incontrovertible scientific research” and then writing an article completely free of any references to such research.

The only thing of value I took away from this article is that the author posted it 3 times this week, and it only got popular on the 3rd try. So if you want to get something to the front page of HN, post it a bunch of times!

In the HN FAQ, under "Are reposts okay?"

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Usually you have to get lucky with the right time of day for something to actually take off the way it would otherwise (before it falls too far down "new"). Sometimes the staff will even email you asking if you can repost a link that "should have" taken off, but didn't because of bad timing. Personally I limit myself to three tries on posts I've spent time writing that haven't yet gotten out of the single digits.

Clarification: Eating mostly plants is sound advice if you consider that it means eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes.

> Not only is the premise of the tenuous analogy likely completely wrong (the preponderance of evidence suggests eating “mostly plants” is, in fact, anywhere from bad to terrible for you...

Where did you get that information, foster farms? Or are you defining "mostly plants" to be a diet that consists solely of green skittles?

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