Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
I'm sad I can't find my favorite comment, and have actually searched for it on multiple occasions.It wasn't a good comment, it was a bad comment — I am only sharing it on the off chance that somebody else will remember and post the link.The discussion had veered to bicycle helmets: should they be required, is there innovation to be realized in their design, something like that.Somebody posted some comment about definitely wanting people to have a helmet when they crash their bike and hit their head on the curb, and some other person became incensed at their evidence-free assertion that wearing a helmet would be helpful when crashing one's bike and having one's head hit the curb. The incensed party demanded links to scientifically rigorous studies, rather than some layperson's hunch, that helmet wearing would be beneficial in this particular circumstance.I laughed out loud when I read it, because it so pithily and absurdly epitomized what is often _wrong_ with this website.