Comment by simonw

Part of being on Hacker News is learning that there are people in this community - like tptacek - who are worth listening to.

In general, part of being an effective member of human society is getting good at evaluating who you should listen to and who is just hot air. I collect people who I consider to be credible and who have provided me with useful information in the past. If they start spouting junk I quietly drop them from my "pay attention to these people" list.