genuinely impressed by your tact and quality of response to such a weirdly hostile message
Have you ever been to an investor meeting? That is a true hostile environment. Consider this the dry run.
People routinely underestimate the hostility in their own comments. You should probably multiple your perception of it by 10x to have a sense of how it's landing with the median reader. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The link you referenced is looking for “objects in the mirror” I’m not sure how that’s related here.
Frankly HN has become an Orwellian environment, perhaps after 14+ years I’m no longer welcome here.
I'm European (French), I like folks that are direct and whom with we can discuss