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Edit: The first bit was silently fixed, the second wasn't - the fact you won't even acknowledge the mistake or the edit just makes it look more mercenary and blogspammy.

The scientific approach is to assess their responses after giving them dark chocolate and dark chocolate placebo, double blinded.

Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, search for 'reposts'. A few weeks after a huge Show HN thread is a little soon.

I think the methodology is too poor to actually make that call. It's closer to "the 20% is kind of made up".

No, you can't, without completely making stuff up. Plenty of people have lived in those and also the other alternatives who could tell you this, not that it's difficult to surmise without that experience.

There's no mention of 'artistic choices', it's just self-congratulation on one's personal choice to not-read. A perfectly valid choice but it's HN-offtopic since it's hard to square 'curious conversation' with 'trumpeting one's incuriosity'.

Yep, it very much feels like that but it doesn't seems to have happened yet. Even a not-entirely-quite-working yet attempt there could be an interesting thing/discussion.