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• slededit 10y ago
  Within a narrow sphere, but the Hacker news audience is limited in diversity - and because of this so are the range of debates that go on here. Generally speaking Hacker News focuses on upper middle class American issues. When we talk about the less well off its generally from the top looking down. Watch next time for the comments of the form "I'd gladly pay more taxes so XYZ wouldn't have to go through this". Few commenters ever truly see themselves personally getting into one of these situations. In terms of politics this site is heavily westernized. Communism and the Chinese system does have some nice features (along with the bad), but its rare to see threads here explore the benefits. None of this is necessarily bad, and I'd argue this site gives you a broader view of the world than reading traditional news. However its far from a zeitgeist of what's "really happening" in the world.
  • zghst 10y ago
    My comment was a heavy does of <sarcasm />. I wholeheartedly agree with your viewpoints though.