You are being uninformatively pedantic, "There are places" is enough context for a throwaway sentence. Analysing every word or phrase is not productive and I th

You are being uninformatively pedantic, "There are places" is enough context for a throwaway sentence. Analysing every word or phrase is not productive and I think my meaning was clear enough. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html doesn't specifically mention nitpicking: I admit I have the same fault (Edit: rephrased this). Edit 2: perhaps I should have added that I think engineering is the art of making good compromises.