You're pulling numbers (and a whole lot of other dodgy assertions) out of the air, and no, it's not fine at all. On top of that -- when politely confronted for

You're pulling numbers (and a whole lot of other dodgy assertions) out of the air, and no, it's not fine at all. On top of that -- when politely confronted for having done so, rather than simply acknowledge what (up until then) might have been charitably dismissed as a mistake -- you doubled down on these purely invented numbers. It's flame bait, and against site guidelines, which instruct us that comments be "more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html