Personally I found it interesting and thought-provoking, which is what I want from HN content. If I'd read the article outside HN it probably wouldn't have occurred to me to submit it here, but I'm happy that somebody did.

edit: Since nobody else has, might as well pull out the usual response to this sort of comment too - here's from the HN guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." So really the question is did you not find it interesting?