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Only on HN will you see a recounting of a massive achievement of humankind dismissed offhandedly like this.
by tekla 3y ago
Only on HN will you see a recounting of a massive achievement of humankind dismissed offhandedly like this.
- dragontamer 3y agoI'd say Zero Dark Thirty was a bad movie about a major and important event. Calling a movie bad doesn't diminish the original event. It just criticizes the movie itself.
- yCombLinks 3y agoIn the long run the development of AI is far more significant than relatively minor skirmishes of American Imperialism.
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y agoEh, the barb about "maybe you like soap operas" wasn't necessary and doesn't do the comment any favors.
- sdfghswe 3y agoIn that phrase when I said "you" I didn't mean the person I was responding to. I mean the "general you" - a hypothetical person. I didn't occur to me it could be interpreted differently. I've edited it.
- cdelsolar 3y agozero dark thirty was pretty good, what was wrong with it?
- sdfghswe 3y ago> tekla 10 minutes ago https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tekla https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tekla > Only on HN will you see a recounting of a massive achievement of humankind dismissed offhandedly like this. I'm not dismissing an achievement of humankind. I'm dismissing the PR piece they put out about it. Do you struggle to see the distinction?