[edwardunknown]

This is unbearable. For one thing this same story was at the top yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5967695

And more importantly it's painful listening to a bunch of computer programmers spout off about politics and world events. I value 4Chan's analysis of current events more than Hacker News' and that's not even a joke. There are very few things more irritating than a spoiled rotten 20 year old's explanation of how the world works.

Please you guys, stick to talking about javascript. You're ruining this site.

[solistice]

"Gentlement, go back to your machines, this matter is of a higher sphere, and shall not be of your consideration".

Let's find some common denominator. I agree with you that there are 20 year olds on this site. That was about as much as I could find.

Now if you leave out the indirect reference to "spoiled rotten" people frequenting your site, we'd even have more room for agreement, because I do disagree with you on either of them. I know, I might smell a bit rotten if I didn't have time for showers on a 2 week death march, but I'm not showing any necrosis yet. I'm pretty sure the sour taste in my mouth doesn't stem from me being spoiled either, but rather from your chunky oratory.

But on a more serious point, what is spoiled is to expect that this entire site caters to you.

You want javascript? I'm sure there are half a dozen posts on the front page, with another dozen on the second page ("I have to scroll? But I don't want to scroll").

You know what I think is rotten?

Telling other people that politics, things which concern them directly and indirectly, shouldn't be discussed by them. Ironically, there's a reference to the GeStaPo on the article we're discussing. They kinda had a knack for that as well.