We detached this subthread from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11195895" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11195895</a> and marked it off-topic.<p>Edit: I should probably add that it isn&#x27;t halflings&#x27; comment alone, but the fact that the entire discussion went massively meta, that made this subthread problematic.