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You don't have to be an authority to criticize others for speaking about a topic in which they likely have zero expertise.

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proof of lack of expertise? Oh right, there is none. You don't know someones credentials over the internet. Unless you maybe divine them somehow

"Likely" is the word you seemed to have overlooked.

I didn't overlook anything, but I'm also not under the illusion that Hacker News is a peer reviewed journal. Hacker News doesn't require anything of a commentator, the only requirements are on content.

Unless you can magically ascertain the qualifications, or lack thereof, of someone, maybe you should only criticize on the content of their comments?

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