1. "It is frankly amazing...that we pretend [communication] should cost dramatically less to obtain on a monthly basis than...other less valuable things."

There is no denying the fact that supply and demand have an impact on pricing, but let me be clear here: the price of Internet connectivity is going down. No company is going to decide that connectivity is really 'worth' more than they're charging and raises prices. It would be suicide. As for the technical side, wireless and wired solutions are being brought forth every day that reduce cost. There is no implicit 'value' being provided than shuttling some bits down a tube (or a series of them).

4."Every TV will soon have a unique IP address."

Excuse the ad hominem attack, but any person well enough acquainted with technology to say "Paul Graham is wrong." should understand how the Internet works well enough to avoid making incorrect statements like this. Even if he did mean that each TV would have a distinct IP address on networks, that really has no bearing at all on the discussion at hand.

3."To give you some Big TV math to work with: One hour of Prime Time TV is worth approximately .64 cents for every single viewer (32 :30 second ads * .02 cents per ad)."

Here it is again. That etherial substance called 'worth.' Even assuming these numbers are correct (the article cites no sources), the current going rate has almost no bearing on the future.

And then the kicker:

4. "Our new company, SaysMe TV has a new model, ... a new form of TV commercial, available for national 'local cable' campaigns meant to be 'Tivo-resistant.'"

This is as close as the author comes to simply admitting that this post is an ad.

In summary, this article is flamebait, linkbait, and spam.

Or maybe I could just boycott linkbait titles altogether. If everyone does that the new way to get people to read your article would be... drumroll... to write an accurate title! Now that would be scary wouldn't it? The end of an era.

Avoid the issue by not returning multiple A records with different address prefix lengths compared against 192.168 and 10. That will make hosting selection a little trickier.

The internet will be pronounced dead in 60 seconds.

In the end, even if it doesn't work out someone should have the decency to explain exactly what the problem is. Alienating him to get him out of the group is a pretty dick move.

In my tenure as a hacker I've found that the subset of hackers who don't get satire and seem to have no sense of humor is at least as large as the subset that does. For every cool, funny hacker guy you meet, there's at least one weird, humorless semi-autistic guy waiting to make the next teambuilding outing more awkward.

I've noticed this trend for the past couple of months...comments and articles that are clearly intended humorously being voted down as trolls, or responded to as trolls, or both. I know we're supposed to be politely nudging these new users onto the path of righteousness and into becoming productive members of the HN community...but how does one teach someone to have a sense humor? I really don't want to be one of those Eternal September types, but hackers like to laugh.

Is temperature an illusion? Certainly not. And yet, as the article says, it's merely a model of the interaction between molecules.

Some models explain more than other models. Models that explain more are better. Thinking in terms of real/illusion is not helpful at all.