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Hmpf, analogies are crutches. Carpenters don’t use them so I don’t use them. Just use the right-sized hammer for the nail in front of you.

You could power the earth exclusively on the smug that emits from analogy arguments (or what we call analgruments in the biz).

> You could power the earth exclusively on the smug

I would like to learn more about smug-powered systems. Do you have some links I should read?

https://smug.moe

The analogies found on HN could have their own dedicated parody site.

*they’re

I posted before on HN about this trend, of commenters often completely forgetting about the original article, and arguing a lot (in child comments) about some top-voted comment.

I called it the Hacker News Right-Side Effect (or Rule)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405167