The huge number of downvotes should probably indicate to you that what you stated as a matter of fact is incorrect[1]. It's not necessarily that HNers think th

The huge number of downvotes should probably indicate to you that what you stated as a matter of fact is incorrect[1]. It's not necessarily that HNers think they know, even though I'm sure we do! :), it's that it's pretty clear that you didn't know but made a statement as if you did know, with no substantiation. Sadly, as it turns out here, it was based on "some guy somewhere said", which is a much-maligned standard of knowledge on HN. BTW, I suspect the downvotes for this comment are for the combination of basically admitting that you're relying on hearsay and that, attempting to research the matter further, you were shocked (shocked!) that there were people arguing on the Internet and that was the end of the matter for you. [1] or a matter of opinion, but this is an engineering topic, which, on HN, is generally pretty comfortably treated as fact.