Thanks! I enjoyed your link much more than the OP. The 4chan version is consistently funny, while the OP is more like funny, SRS, funny, SRS, funny. That's interesting to SRS/SJW kind of people, but I try not to hang out where they hang out, they're too authoritarian.
Because the content really is hillarious, breaks the HN bubble a bit and is tightly related to this particular community.
To take that kind of joke badly shows immaturity and potentially some other psychological disorders, if one would try to ascribe them to community as opposed to individual.
>Am I the only person that gets annoyed when I read "an order of magnitude" and the article doesn't mention whether it’s binary or decimal
I thought I was the only one! Seriously, that kind of ambiguity is on par with the imperial/metric issues that destroyed the Mars climate orbiter back in '99.
I've always understood "an order of magnitude" to be between double and ten times. It is meant as shorthand to mean "several times" with no intention of any kind of precision.
The internet seems a bit obsessed with this kind of thing. From /r/cringepics to this, the goal seems to be to make fun of other people. It's like an extension of highschool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7690995
I'm genuinely curious, what takeaway is there other than "Ha ha, look at that idiot"?
The tweets individually could be seen as digs at people, although they are (hopefully on purpose) not attributed.
Taken together I like to think it helps everyone realize that HN is a clique, albeit a generally knowledgeable, inclusive, and well-educated one. The HN community is no more immune to the sort of groupthink that inspires the thoughts published in the twitter feed than any internet community, and it never hurts to be aware of the fact.
My understanding of the linked comment is "to interact constructively with people making fun of you indicates social maturity", not "this twitter feed indicates social maturity".
