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Weird that this is the top-rated comment, as it's directly contradicted by the heat maps in the article, which show increases in CAT all over the globe, in many places that are not routes between Europe and South Asia. (Also consider that the principal question the article tries to answer is not "are there more CAT incidents?" but simply "is there more CAT?") I glanced at a few current (as of today) routes, e.g. CDG-…
> Weird that this is the top-rated comment, The reason it is top-rated is because it sounds extremely reasonable. This is enough for most people. I am not judging on whether the comment is correct or not, just answering why it is top-rated. I find nothing weird about it.
I don't think the comment sounds unreasonable, and I don't find anything weird about the words in the comment itself. It just kinda bums me out that so many people must come here and comment and upvote comments without even reading or skimming the first few paragraphs of the article. This isn't news to me, of course; I've been a frequent HN reader for over a decade now. But it still bums me out.