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I am not interested in teaching you how to google. I gave you pointers and keywords. Now you have to go read. Good luck.

• fc417fc802 3mo ago
  The trouble with that attitude is that it's much cheaper to make false claims that it is to do the research necessary to debunk them. As a result it isn't reasonable in a context such as HN to expect others to do the work of articulating your own position for you. I provided a concrete example (famine) where the existing literature appears to contradict in broad strokes your original claim.
  • erikerikson 3mo ago
    That's true but demanding full satisfaction can be it's own bad expectation. The respondent spent their time giving you pointers which cost them. Suggesting that because they spent some of their time they are stuck giving you more of their time leads to suppressed sharing. One way to take them is that they were trying to combat you and if their goal was to win in public then they might be beholden. Otherwise they were just trying to share a lead and that was as much as they wanted to engage with what can be an exhausting and motivated line of argument. Especially so in the face of what may have seemed like a demanding response.
• pwdisswordfishq 3mo ago
  The Google which no longer searches for what you ask and instead rephrases your query into meaninglessness and returns irrelevant results? That Google?