That crosses into personal attack and is not allowed. Your account doesn't seem to have a history of doing this on HN, so I'm going to put it down to the weird sort of pothole in the road that occasionally leads to a near-collision. But please don't do it again. paulsutter has been a great HN contributor for years and did not deserve this.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13799970 and marked it off-topic.