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Re:How China is rewriting the book on human origins by dang on Monday July 25, 2016 @09:21PM (#12162763)
It's a serious violation of the rules here to bring in someone's personal details as ammunition in an argument, regardless of how wrong they are. Please don't do this again.

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

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Re:How China is rewriting the book on human origins by delazeur on Monday July 25, 2016 @09:45PM (#12162861)
We have both clearly broken the civility rule and I apologize for my part in it, but if someone chooses to identify themselves I don't see how it's uncivil to address them by name. Indeed, I see it done fairly regularly here on HN.
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Re:How China is rewriting the book on human origins by dang on Monday July 25, 2016 @10:04PM (#12162932)
It was clearly intended as an attack in this case, and that's not ok, regardless of how wrong the other person is.
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Re:How China is rewriting the book on human origins by delazeur on Monday July 25, 2016 @10:09PM (#12162950)
It was not an attack. Being addressed by name is a natural consequence of telling people your name.
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