All: please don't post shallow, reflexive reactions to a story like this, even if you're sure you're right. Such reactions are 100% predictable (e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497174), and predictability hurts more than rightness helps [0]. Predictable discussions are tedious and invariably lead to worse—for example, tedious discussions turn nasty because that's the only thing the mind has left to amuse itself with [1].

What we want: reflective [2], specific, difference-based [3] responses, coming from slower cognitive processes like absorbing new information and thinking about it. That's what produces a discussion which hasn't been had before, and those are the curious discussions. They may be less exciting in the sensational-indignant way, but that sort of excitement is not the curiosity which HN exists for [4], and we all know it gets boring after a while. Scorched earth is not interesting [5].

p.s. I know nothing and have no opinion about the topic of the story; I just know HN threads and can spot a brewing disaster when I see one. The last 700 (let's say) cryptocurrency-related threads have all been the same flamewar. That's enough of those; we're ready to move to the next exercise now.

Edit: well done everyone! Much better.

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