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Aside from Anechoic who gave a very appreciated correction to my comment, not a single person has provided any additional information. You keep saying I'm uninformed but you've not provided any information to this discussion. Please do! I want to know more.
Possibly the internet at large, or hn, doesn't consider it our jobs to babysit you. Type something like ellen pao lawsuit into google and educate yourself.
I strongly object to this form of argument. It boils down to "I'm right because you haven't done the work to show I'm right." You can always demand more work, and it doesn't require any correlation with the truth.