There is a collective impatience to Hacker News comments. If s'thing is not easy to grok immediately, the comments fill with dismissal
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@michael_nielsen They are all so smart; if they don't understand something immediately, someone else must be dumb.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@michaelhoffman There are plenty of thoughtful commenters. But for things outside conventional narrative the _collective_ response is weak1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@michael_nielsen As a biologist, reading HN biology threads usually frustrating. Participants know so little yet seem so very certain.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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@michaelhoffman Sure (ditto physics). It's often great on stuff that's directly tech- or startup-related. And s'times gems outside
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