alt Hacker News// The article makes the point that, in practice, //
The article is over 10 years old. Which is 100 years in computer-dog years. What may or may not have been true about 2015 may or may not be true about what is going on today. We cannot just uncritically take its conclusions as read.
Your comment is pointless, unless you follow up and point out what specifically has changed in these 10 years and invalidated the argument made in the article.
I don't take its conclusions uncritically. I examine them logically and I map them onto my own recent practical experience. Actually, in this thread people gave multiple good counter-examples that I haven't processed yet