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I for one found the thread very interesting. Why must HN always be so negative?

• unpopularopp 3y ago
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• tgv 3y ago
  There's no content in the thread. Top reply is: "because it was like this 1000 years ago." And that is not even certain; it's just an assumption. Then there is the "12 has so many divisors" shtick, for which there equally is no evidence. And then it stops. Nobody even mentions that Germanic share this, and that Romance languages have something similar, even though Latin didn't. It's a very poor discussion. There's no proof, there's no reason, there's no science. Understandable, because it's just an artifact of language evolution, of which there are as many as there are words. It's surprising when you're a teenager, because it confronts you with the arbitrary nature of something that is totally natural to you, but that's about it. It's not exactly "prime numbers with quantum computers", "0-day exploits in Linux", or "advances in generative AI" territory. It makes for a cute half column in "Popular Science" magazine, not HN.