Surely you understand you were being challenged on the existence of an established theoretical solution, not on the existence of a literal link to Wikipedia specifically?
Not sure whether you're being sarcastic, but in case you are:
The internet, including this forum, is chock-full of people making useless comments like "well I like it" or "it works for me", just asserting their views or experiences while advancing no argument and offering no discussion.
The post you just replied to is not doing that.
The poster you replied to is taking the time to describe and explain his experiences and their implications. He's contributed a lot more to the conversation than you have, and doesn't deserve sarcasm.
You weren't sure whether I was being sarcastic, yet you /are/ sure that the post I sarcastically responded to was written in the spirit of contribution, and was not itself insincere.
I wish the parent had taken the time and effort to actually make his point, instead of leaving an easily misunderstood, single-word non-comment in the hope of some easy fake internet points. This is how forums degrade.
Perhaps in an effort to increase the comment quality of HN, we should all pitch in some engineering time pro-bono to Reddit. Before you strike me down, think about it.
At a quick first read, this came across as not much more than just a list of lesser-known siblings of famous classical mythological figures. The author mentions Jung and sibling rivalries in one sentence at the end, but doesn't really go anywhere with this idea. Is there any point here that I missed? I kind of get the vibe that an author with writers' block and a deadline spent about half an hour squeezing a classical dictionary to get something just passable as an essay.
>Perhaps the petrification business became too wearying; perhaps they wanted the good life, and now make tasteful little animal sculptures in a cottage by the sea.
>He was the mortal half-brother of the hulk, or hunk; yes, he was powerful, but he couldn’t hold a candle to the Zeus-born elder brother.
I think many people know this is pushed to the front page of HN because of the Hades game (which is great). But you're right, this word salad is just someone trying to fill content in a dull pointless way.
You're trying to explain current Japanese demographics with a weird rant about WW2 without mentioning the subsequent economic miracle and population growth? The population of Japan was not far off doubling from 1945 to 2010, and in case you somehow haven't noticed, they became a major first-world economy, eclipsing many many nations which were not nuked.
80 years is really quite a long time. Germany also bounced back rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century to become a major industrial power.
So many internet know-it-alls thinking they'll disprove the entire article all at once with their one-sentence intellectual zinger, and then we'll all bow down and praise them for their great cleverness. I despair of internet forums - some have better culture for a while, but as far as I've seen, Dunning-Kruger always wins in the end.
Right. I've seen some zoos that already have a little "farm" section showing off some local heritage livestock breeds. I'd expect that sort of thing to take right off if it started to look like there was real risk of extinctions.
Look to the straw man in your own eye.