That an article contains a provocation is not a good reason to bring it in here and set the thread on fire. What to do instead: leave it there and wait for the activation to settle before posting. We're trying for curious conversation here, and repetition and flamewar go against that.
If you (or anyone) would like a fuller explanation of how and why this kind of generic tangent goes against the intended use of HN, there's a recent one here, with a bunch of links to others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26894739.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That an article contains a provocation is not a good reason to bring it in here and set the thread on fire. What to do instead: leave it there and wait for the activation to settle before posting. We're trying for curious conversation here, and repetition and flamewar go against that.
If you (or anyone) would like a fuller explanation of how and why this kind of generic tangent goes against the intended use of HN, there's a recent one here, with a bunch of links to others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26894739.