Comment by tialaramex

> [when there is no reply button, you need to click on the date (i.e. N minutes ago) to get the reply box]

As an off-topic aside here that might help anybody who is wondering: HN deliberately doesn't provide "Reply" for very recent comments to try to dissuade you from having the sort of urgent back-and-forth you might reasonably do in a real time chat system, and less reasonably attempt (and likely regret) on platforms like Twitter.

A brief window to think about the thing you just read might cause you to write something more thoughtful, and even to realise that it wasn't saying what you had thought in the first place.

My favourite example was an example where somebody said a feature means "less typing" and another comment insisted it did not, and I was outraged until I realised all that's happening is that one person thinks "Typing" means "You know, pressing keys on your keyboard" and the other person thinks "Typing" means "You know, why an integer is different from a float in C" and so they're actually not even disagreeing the conflict is purely syntax!