It's interesting that a spike of 30k login attempts in a short time is enough to set off alarm bells. It makes me wonder what kind of attacks fly under the radar in larger systems.
It's hard to deny that the majority of people take things at face value as long as a guy in a labcoat tells them it's true and that we know it, "because science." Media coverage of any event will call the people involved "scientists," to give them credibility, neglecting to explain what the actual role of these nebulous "scientists" is. "Because science," is often a question-closer among the majority of people. You don't press further, because "Science," says it's true, so that must mean it is. It doesn't seem all that unreasonable to call this behavior cultish.
It's everything surrounding this statement that is refreshing. Hearing, "Diversity is not our goal; creating an environment that welcomes diversity is," runs counter to the incessant assumptions that going out of our way to collect diversity tokens is the end all and be all to facilitating diversity.
I never thought I would hear someone call markdown a hurdle to adoption. Maybe I'm more semantically minded, but I have yet to find a markup syntax easier to figure out than markdown, including the rich text editors in Google Docs.
It's just the concept that unfamiliar ambient noises can become very grating to some people. Someone used to a particular fan might struggle with the sound of a different one. Someone used to the sound of a CRT TV might ignore it, while other people can't. Likewise, someone not used to silence can be uncomfortable with the lack of stimulus. It's a common aspect of sensory processing abnormalities, such as autism. It's well documented and entirely reasonable. Just because it's not a standalone disorder doesn't make it fake.