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This is a pretty intelligent bunch so I hope there is rationale in discussing it honestly, but do you really think so? What had Aaron done lately? I only raise the question because you say the opposite, and in such situations the absolutely worst thing the community can do is canonize someone, exaggerating their accomplishments and raising their words above actual merit (the front-page is full of his old entries now.…
This is going to be dead for the vast majority of HN, but if you ever wondered how HN tends to decline to a monotone, note that the above post got me, at a minimum, IP banned on HN.
Are you sure? Both the above and this comment are visible (not dead).