> Caveat: Going by the Twitter thread. I've not verified this. That's the problem. The Twitter thread is wrong. If someone makes a fact claim that doesn't ho

> Caveat: Going by the Twitter thread. I've not verified this. That's the problem. The Twitter thread is wrong. If someone makes a fact claim that doesn't hold up under scrutiny, then consider what effect comments have when they uncritically take those claims at face value. They end up demanding/diverting attention towards what is just noise. We have enough experience by now that we shouldn't have to relearn where hot takes go wrong, and yet here we are: in the comments on what was a #1 story on HN with dozens of people getting a false impression after swallowing unsubstantiated (and ultimately untrue) alleged facts.