Please don't respond to someone else breaking the site guidelines by breaking them yourself. That only makes the thread even worse.

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

You're right. Sorry, dang.

You literally quoted their assertion and then responded "No".

Yeah, I did. You'll have to forgive me for having been loose with the language I used to write a random comment on the internet. I'm sure I could've worded it differently and in a way that made more sense to the specific context.

You'll also have to forgive me for not responding to that specific critique until you came along, I guess. I'd have been happy to reply to that previously if I hadn't been very condescendingly talked down to about the literal definition of the word no and then told that I ran a household like an asshole, etc...