Please don't say personally aggressive things such as "you haven't even read the essay" and "you don't know what you're talking about" in HN comments. It's bad for both signal/noise ratio and personal civility, the two things we care about most here.
It's striking how informative and polite your comment suddenly becomes if one simply deletes those phrases and nothing else.
It's striking how informative and polite your comment suddenly becomes if one simply deletes those phrases and nothing else.