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Without some description of what "false claims" and "misinterpretation" you mean, this is a content-free post.

jessaustin 8y ago
It has more "content" than the post to which it replies. "This is good." "No, it is bad, in these particular areas." [EDIT:] Granted, the post could still be wrong, but ISTM accusations of content-freedom tend to be projections.
- pdpi 8y ago
  "This is a good read" is a statement of opinion. You're free to assign whatever value you like to the op's opinion, but that opinion is "content" in and of itself. "The article has false claim" is a statement of fact. A vague statement of fact about a non-obvious topic that puts no effort into providing concrete examples and reasoning is pretty much worthless.
  - jessaustin 8y ago
    Adding qualifiers makes a statement have less content? Please try to imagine using this questionable argument in any other context... It's a controversial topic and TFA was written by someone with a commercial interest. Everything is opinion. The level of comment-policing I see here makes me quite suspicious of everything in TFA. [EDIT:] aargh I'll never learn every discussion that starts with "content-free" cliche goes nowhere... just downvote and move on...
    - haberman 8y ago
      If you're suspicious about me, it's not very well-founded, considering my main comment thread on this story takes issue with the blog's claims: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039801 I just prefer to have discussions about specific things, not posturing and innuendo.
zzzcpan 8y ago
Too much is false to explain it, like half of the article. So I just called it out instead. I know it's not very convincing, but I'm not getting paid to write giant FUD/PR posts like they do. I work on distributed stuff completely independently.
- dang 8y ago
  That's fine, but it's against the site guidelines to post shallow dimissals here, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It has more "content" than the post to which it replies. "This is good." "No, it is bad, in these particular areas." [EDIT:] Granted, the post could still be wrong, but ISTM accusations of content-freedom tend to be projections.

pdpi 8y ago
"This is a good read" is a statement of opinion. You're free to assign whatever value you like to the op's opinion, but that opinion is "content" in and of itself. "The article has false claim" is a statement of fact. A vague statement of fact about a non-obvious topic that puts no effort into providing concrete examples and reasoning is pretty much worthless.
- jessaustin 8y ago
  Adding qualifiers makes a statement have less content? Please try to imagine using this questionable argument in any other context... It's a controversial topic and TFA was written by someone with a commercial interest. Everything is opinion. The level of comment-policing I see here makes me quite suspicious of everything in TFA. [EDIT:] aargh I'll never learn every discussion that starts with "content-free" cliche goes nowhere... just downvote and move on...
  - haberman 8y ago
    If you're suspicious about me, it's not very well-founded, considering my main comment thread on this story takes issue with the blog's claims: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039801 I just prefer to have discussions about specific things, not posturing and innuendo.

zzzcpan 8y ago

Too much is false to explain it, like half of the article. So I just called it out instead. I know it's not very convincing, but I'm not getting paid to write giant FUD/PR posts like they do. I work on distributed stuff completely independently.

dang 8y ago
That's fine, but it's against the site guidelines to post shallow dimissals here, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html