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Classic "noble savage" / "everything was better in the past" article. Why is this on HN?
by blattimwind 8y ago
Classic "noble savage" / "everything was better in the past" article. Why is this on HN?
- gpvos 8y agoIt makes a good discussion piece, and while far from perfect, it does bring some interesting data to the table (such as the stagnation in poverty decline if you exclude China).
- bogle 8y agoI think the article posited that the graphic was based on incomplete data and failed to show the effect of China's policies. He wasn't trying to make a case for it being all roses before 1981, he was trying to demonstrate that the Davos neo-liberals couldn't claim to be right. Perhaps it's suitable for HN because it raises the question of good data analysis versus making up numbers that amount to false news.
- alistairSH 8y agoOn-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.[0] 0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html