I understand and appreciate what you&#x27;re saying. I&#x27;m also happy to retract things when I&#x27;m wrong, which happens pretty regularly. But you&#x27;re incorrect about how I read the article (also: &quot;how carefully other people read an article&quot; is not a valid topic of debate on HN). I stand by what I wrote.<p>You are welcome to disagree with my assessment, strenuously. If you&#x27;d like to do that, please write arguments that are about what I wrote, not about what you think I personally did or didn&#x27;t do.<p><i>(PS: that&#x27;s not an actual ad-hominem argument. &quot;Ad-hominem&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;anything negative you say about a particular person or entity&quot;.)</i>