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Microsoft Execs Expressed ‘Shock and Disbelief’ at Internet Address Shortage
- shiggerino 11y agoWhat kind of fucking retards are at work here? Microsoft's previous incompetence have been explained away for decades that it only makes business sense to be just "good enough". But there has to be limits.
- dang 11y ago> What kind of fucking retards are at work here? Please read and follow the site guidelines when commenting on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- shiggerino 11y agoI have read the guidelines. There was nothing gratuitous about that comment, given the subject matter.
- dang 11y ago> given the subject matter That's a but-he-started-it argument. You can justify anything that way. The negativity in your comment was gratuitous because it added nothing substantive, only bile. Whether the other person started it or not, or is a fucking retard or not, is beside the point. You owe better behavior, if not to them, then to the community. For civil and substantive discussion, we all need to hold ourselves to a higher standard than the (frequently objectionable) one we perceive other people to be keeping. The alternative is a downward spiral.
- shiggerino 11y agoIn this context, gratuitous means unwarranted. I can't imagine a situation when that degree of negativity is more warranted than when one of the world's most successful IT companies' undoubtedly most skilled executives and network engineers only in 2015 realized what the rest of the computer networking community has been talking about for more than 20 years.