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People on HN have real interpretation & ego issues, it is unbelieveable. Everyone seems to be discussing whether the author is correct about claiming that "peo
by thiago_fm 3y ago
People on HN have real interpretation & ego issues, it is unbelieveable.
Everyone seems to be discussing whether the author is correct about claiming that "people only really learn when surprised", he wrote it that way to give emphasis to what he had previously written, not really used it as a fact.
So this comment section became a battle of proving the author wrong, when in reality, he has actually written a very interesting piece with a nice hook. I don't understand why people nowadays can't just take the good part, the lesson learned and move on.
It seems like HN has been going downhill since years and it only gets worse. Sad. Well, that isn't a surprising message right? Maybe I should have omitted it.
- Michelangelo11 3y agoYeah ... I get the sense people are ripping that sentence out of context and debating it on its own merits, when there should really be no debate because, taken literally and context-free, the sentence obviously doesn't make sense. It all seems like such a waste of energy when we could be discussing the substance of the article.
- thanatropism 3y agoIt's a very short article. It's not like it's full of substance and that one sentence is a faux-pas or overenthusiastic. The content is basically that one idea plus some padding.
- ilyt 3y agoI read it whole. It's terrible and makes some weird claims. It's like author didn't understood difference between "surprised" and just plainly interested.