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The discussion is a big part of HN for me. Like early reddit, you often get experts in their field, or constructive, thoughtful criticism of an article. Jokes

• gist 10y ago
  > you often get experts in their field It's difficult to tell who is an expert in their field since it often appears that someone is an expert simply because a) nobody is able to refute them (and who knows the qualifications, at any given time, of anyone reading comments at that moment and b) they appear at least to know more than you do. I am often amazed at the well written comments here at HN. But then again I have often no clue how correct those comments are.
  • datahack 10y ago
    That's just generally the problem when reading sufficiently advanced expert commentary outside ones field though, isn't it? Many times deep experts in the same field are themselves the only ones capable of calling bs. I remember a thread on rocketry when spacex was going through it that was pretty much Greek to me, but folks were chatting away with one another and arguing all kinds of things I had never heard of. Great hn thread.