Excellent comment. One quick heads-up on formatting: if you use asterisks instead of underscores to emphasize text, the HN text processor will actually set the text in italics. For example, instead of writing

    rather the _opportunity_ ... And _everybody_ was thinking

to produce "rather the _opportunity_ ... And _everybody_ was thinking", you can write

  rather the *opportunity* ... And *everybody* was thinking

to produce "rather the opportunity ... And everybody was thinking".