> HN comments (laypeople in general) tend to make very confident and very wrong comments on {X}
Yes, it's annoying. From conspiracy theorists to supposedly smart people with PhD's, I'll catch them in a fiction. "You just made all of that up," I'll say, to which they reply with handwaving and equivocation. Why are we so reticent to be comfortable with our own ignorance and hold our tongue?
Yes, it's annoying. From conspiracy theorists to supposedly smart people with PhD's, I'll catch them in a fiction. "You just made all of that up," I'll say, to which they reply with handwaving and equivocation. Why are we so reticent to be comfortable with our own ignorance and hold our tongue?