Don't get me wrong; this man's a U.S. national treasure. But when I come to Hacker News, I expect to see hacker news. The mods really need to start clamping down on this stuff. I can go to reddit or nearly any other site on the internet to have learned about this. What does this even have to do with startups?
It's like opening a kitchen drawer to get a fork and seeing that someone in the house is replacing the forks with cups. And they can't seem to understand why they're just slowly making this drawer completely redundant.
