You also broke the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread, including with personal attacks. I know the other commenter was being provocative, but it's not ok to post the way you did in response.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

You’re right. Sorry. Didn’t realise the original accusation hit a nerve—that’s on me. (Thank you.)