Also Nerd Sniping[0] should be avoided, although that slips through the cracks here on HN. A form of Cunningham's Law[1]
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at least i come here for the discussion of interesting problems. sure sometimes i wonder, like, should i really have spent the time to comment on wobbly walls in britain? was that question i posed a nerdsnipe? maybe, but then so was the whole article.