Politically, spaces full of techies have traditionally been an uneasy truce between progressivism (as you'd expect from high-income, high-education white-collar

Politically, spaces full of techies have traditionally been an uneasy truce between progressivism (as you'd expect from high-income, high-education white-collar professionals) and libertarianism (from the entrepreneurial and anti-authoritarian segment of the population), with both sides represented in roughly equal numbers. About 80% of the time, these two sides see eye-to-eye, so places like HN can seem more monolithic in opinion than they actually are.