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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by floatingatoll on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:33PM (#24126245)
I don't think it's necessary or appropriate to assign an insulting stereotype label to that subset of customers, especially not on HN. People who behave in this manner can be readily found on HN in many discussions (for example, virtually all about telemetry), and while I don't understand them I don't condone insulting them either.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by floatingatoll on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @09:47PM (#24127855)
Irrelevant. I object to the intent to be insulting, not to the specific insult chosen. Insultingly calling them “paperclip giraffes^” with the same derogatory intent would have earned the same comment.

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