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Your last sentence is pretentious and condescending.

• boringg 2y ago
  To be fair I am truly surprised at the comment thread here and people being surprised that it collapsed and the lack of understanding of magnitude of forces. I always think of HN as a fairly educated group with a large portion of engineers (skewed heavily towards software which doesn't always have a background in the physical environment). I don't intend to sound pretentious or condescending. Maybe its more that I need to reconcile with my own expectations of the community level of knowledge/domain of expertise. I rather have a high bar of expectations than a low bar though to be honest.
  • HaZeust 2y ago
    The absolute mass of container ships are inconceivable by default - it's really worth repeating how much weight and force they bear.