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Tech Elites Recreate Burning Man Inside Their Living Rooms
- woah 8y agoWhat does this nonsense have to do with Burning Man?
- na85 8y agoIt has nothing to do with the "celebrate self-sufficiency, leave-no-trace-environmentalist" Burning Man. It has a lot to do with the "spend thousands of dollars to go to the desert, sit in an airconditioned pavilion and talk about how money just, like, doesn't matter man" Burning Man.
- Applejinx 8y agoIt has everything to do with CURRENT Burning Man.
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- paulie_a 8y agoSo it's like burning man but the exact complete opposite. Jesus h christ. Talk about self involved douchebaggary
- dang 8y agoPerhaps, but please don't make this site worse by fulminating. It's enough to flag a bad article and move on. Edit: it looks like you've posted a lot of unsubstantive comments to HN. Could you please not? We're trying for somewhat better than that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- AndrewKemendo 8y agoThey really took a journalistic stretch on those "Tech Elites." Not really sure what the connection is to Burning Man either. What is someone really supposed to take away from this article?
- paulcole 8y agoThe article mentions both Musk and Thiel attending one of these songversations. I don’t like either of them, but I think “Tech Elite” fits them well enough.
- seldomrandom 8y agoAgree. It seems like NYT is turning into TMZ...
- hammerzeit 8y agoIf you see a piece in the NYT that's making fun of those weird tech nerds, odds are high it's in the styles section. Choire Sicha, formerly of Gawker, took over the section last year, and since then there's been a rash of pieces akin to this one. Not exactly hit pieces but it's hard to miss the wry condescension throughout.
- cyberpunk0 8y agoThese journals are becoming less and less relevant
- paulcole 8y agoYou might be interested in reading Choire’s definition of what the Styles section is/should be. >I totally hear you that the name “Styles” can sometimes seem like a purple spotlight on a green bowl of fruit, or like a goofy headline on a serious story. We will aggressively cover politics, gender, sexuality, health, crime, shoes and contouring. These things make change in the world. You think Sports is going to cover all this? Much more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/reader-center/choire-sicha-styles-editor-q-and-a.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/reader-center/choire-sich...
- benbenolson 8y agoWho cares what these people do in their own living rooms as diversion? Also, Burning Man doesn't seem to have anything to do with what they're doing, other than music and (likely) drugs.
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- secfirstmd 8y agoIts a house party. They've invented a house party.