See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44686811.
Please don't copy-paste comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44686811).
Linking is fine, as you did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44686876.
It had some changes to what was written due to a different context, but I've changed it to a link.
Yeah, I appreciate that that happens sometimes. Probably the best thing is to link to the original comment and then add the diff in the new context.