Nasty swipes like this routinely get upvoted, and then we end up with them at the top of a thread, choking out everything HN is supposed to be for. (I've downweighted it now.)
If it might help, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and tomhow or I will send you our personal email address.
I'm going to leave this post open in case you want to respond to any of the commenters who have replied to you. Several of them also emailed us to express their concern.
Posting like this will get you banned here. No more of this, please.
Edit: since we've asked you to stop doing this many times (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37951771), and you've continued to do it—not just in this one post, but many—I've banned the account.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Edit: actually I've re-upped your submission of that link and moved the links to the paper to the toptext instead. Hopefully this will ground the discussion more in the actual study.
It's a pity that you didn't make your point more thoughtfully because it's one of the few comments in the thread so far that has anything to do with the actual paper, and even got a response from one of the authors. That's good! Unfortunately, badness destroys goodness at a higher rate than goodness adds it...at least in this genre.
Nasty swipes like this routinely get upvoted, and then we end up with them at the top of a thread, choking out everything HN is supposed to be for. (I've downweighted it now.)
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