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you're right. on reddit they would have answered his question instead of giving a snarky response like yours.
HN readers are not five years old; increasingly reductive questions don't help anyone.
Downvoted again; try looking at it this way. Does the question need to be answered in such a way to be understandable by a five year-old? Does the question actually need to be prefixed in such a way? No, and no? Then let's not get drawn in to making people think for themselves less and expect a little more of them instead - this is how learning and real growth works.