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• dang 2y ago
  Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Especially not on divisive topics, as https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html requests: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
  • hinkley 2y ago
    I didn’t provide citations, that doesn’t mean it’s unsubstantiated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326908 This is the story historians and people of Irish extraction (almost 12% of the US population, including myself) pay more attention to. Lots of people fled during the Famine and found their way to the US.
    • dredmorbius 2y ago
      Unsubstantive != unsubstantiated. <https://www.wordnik.com/words/unsubstantive https://www.wordnik.com/words/unsubstantive> <https://www.wordnik.com/words/unsubstantiated https://www.wordnik.com/words/unsubstantiated>
    • dang 2y ago
      dredmorbius pointed it out already, but I think there was a misunderstanding here. I don't know what did or didn't cause the famine (that's why I said "maybe so" above). I just know that your GP comment took the form of an internet snark post, rather than a thoughtful informative comment. We want the latter, not the former, on HN. That's the difference, btw, between your GP comment and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326908, which I agree was a good post. Your post and that one are taking more or less the same position but one is snarky and lacks information, while the other is snark-free and provides plenty of information.