Oh come on, this was supposed to be a harmless tongue-in-cheek comment. I come from a country which is far behind Russia in terms of technology and I really didn't think anyone could take it as some way of mocking. My bad
I thought it was funny and particularly relevant because the article is written in a macro->micro progression in the tear-down. Hackernews does tend to want to stay dry. It reminds me of my second post where I got dinged trying to be funny. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10211855
