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Here's the lesson: if you have a point to make, please don't fit in extraneous claims, which are much debated themselves, into your argument or comment. It's not hard to see that they can be confused as being part of your point.

> This seems to be a recurring theme on HN, where people point out irrelevant nitpicks as if I couldn't do that myself.

I will say this again: there is nothing wrong with nitpicking. If you can't be technically correct, then you're not correct.