> I’m not sure what you’re talking about, I am simply agreeing with your deft analysis that millions of deaths around the world had exactly zero negative effect

> I’m not sure what you’re talking about, I am simply agreeing with your deft analysis that millions of deaths around the world had exactly zero negative effect on technological advancement in any field. If you think there's a substantive argument to be made here, then using this boorish tone, that most passing readers can probably detect in seconds, is bizarrely self-discrediting. If your dead set on going down this path, my advice would be that maybe some sort of super-genius could impress and bamboozle HN with this kind of writing style, but that's hardly possible at a lower competence.