I understand, but speaking just to my own motivations, it's hard to get myself to respond to a long series of rebuttals, most of which are likely identical to those I've fielded over the last 5 years, in a context like this. I feel bad that you'd take the time to write this much and have nothing happen with it; you should just take the comment you wrote and repackage it so it isn't at the far right margin of a long HN thread.