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Just write the facts and let them stand for themselves.

Life's too short for that shit. That's boring and dull and bland and insipid. Live a little, loosen up, we'll all have time to worry about "just the facts" when we're dead. Which, ironically enough, will probably happen far too soon, unless Ray Kurzweil turns out to be right about some of his crazy "life extension" ideas.

All the facts are there. He presented them entirely clearly.

Agreed. It's clear, it kept me interested and I made sure I read it thoroughly instead of just skimming

The 'problem' being that he didn't just do that.

No, it's a great pull request, i like it. Not everything has to be boring.

I found the article to be quite terse, well-presented and readable, compared to many (verbose, boring) blog posts that get discussed on HN ... Plus, I learned something new. No reason at all to flame the author in my opinion.