The original article (
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6579294) was discussed here, and has now been linked/referenced all over the place. The original article was
interesting but flawed in so many ways. It's absurd how easily long-form pieces get boiled down into tweet-friendly, linkbait headlines that are not at all supported by the document they link to. I worry about the future of well-reasoned analysis.
Good that kotaku picked up the counter-aguments and a few good journalists are now tweeting out counter-arguments but like the saying goes, a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.