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Did you read craig's short comment? It talks about devaluation, not default. Now, it so happens that Argentina chose to pay just what it owed the IMF and effectively get out of "the world credit establishment" with a big, unpaid debt. Guess what? No Argentinean government could have set in motion state intervention/"stimuli" of any kind had most of its resources been devoted to pay an unbearable foreign debt. (Debt interests, in fact.) As you surely know, even though Argentina's debt is proportionally [2] smaller than the that of the US, the payback rates it gets are prohibitive, unlike America's 3%.

Just for clarity, what was your point? That Argentina would have been better off without default? Without devaluation? Both? Let me reiterate, there is nothing stupid about thinking otherwise...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_peso#Peso_convertible...

[2] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/opinion/argentinas-turnaro...

Now, please bear in mind that while you just replied

Your comments about css etc are perfectly fine, and interesting, in an of themself - but not in the context of that article. In the context of that article they were off topic.

you previously stated

People comment on the css when it interesting and you can learn from it. Saying someone didn't use css is not interesting at all.

I was obviously replying to the latter.

Let me emphasize a point you’re not addressing. Even though vote counts are gone, relative positioning of comments give you an idea of what HN as a community deems interesting. Clearly my original comment was not considered enlightening, engaging, nor for that matter inappropriate. But, again, plenty of popular comments are decidedly off topic with respect to the article’s content: DNS, webserver used, whois information, ping times, JS usage, accessibility, color choice, cookies, character encoding, HTML semantics, etc.

But that’s the thing: the moment you provide a URL in HN, many aspects that go way beyond the actual content are generally not considered off topic. Whether that is right or wrong, whether this means “not getting it” are, in my opinion, entirely pointless mental exercises. Clearly, as soon as this changes significantly I will heed the cue and adjust, possibly looking for venues where this “off-topic” chatter is deemed acceptable and even fun.

In any event, thanks again for clarifying your point. Cheers.

Merely raising a point isn't really enough - there has to be a reason to raise it.

My point, in case it was not clear, is that there is merit and elegance to not using CSS at all. It is (arguably!) the purest way of exalting content: forgetting completely about presentational aspects. My point, maybe not well explained first, is that it is noteworthy to see this kind of choice in 2011 by a tech-savvy author. It may not be interesting to you, but it is for more than one person. See, e.g., [1], [2].

I accept this may not be interesting to you, and even to most HNers. Rest assured that if (and only if) I find an overwhelming proof of the latter, I will avoid this kind of comment in the future. But, for the love of Ken, don't even try to take ownership of as subjective a concept as "interesting". Heck, an article on anything at all on HN brings up well-received comments on ping times, DNS servers, JS file delivery, etc. and, um, that may have nothing to do with the content of the article itself. That's one of the main reasons I, for one, love HN.

  [1] http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats/IRC/2007-04-06#T091456
  [2] http://naked.dustindiaz.com/

It is difficult to understand that an academic such as Berners-Lee came up with prominently article-oriented HTML and did not include an AUTHOR tag or DATE tag.

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/posh

Note: This is a variation of a previous comment I made, but a variation nonetheless. Sorry to belabor the point.

You mean some other UNIX variant.

'More GUI' because it added the b[rowse] command [1]? That's a bit of a stretch!

[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/ed

Edit: To be precise, their largest regions (excluding their own embassies) are multiply connected.