It seems to be endemic to HN to blindly transfer lessons from one domain to another without understanding that solutions (not to mention the problems themselves

It seems to be endemic to HN to blindly transfer lessons from one domain to another without understanding that solutions (not to mention the problems themselves!) are deeply contextual and context-sensitive. I’d nominate it as the Paul Graham Special: violent but breezily stated overgeneralization. Happily, though, there are enough different kinds of people here that it usually gets pointed out when it happens, which is heartening.