Meta observation : It's really interesting to view these comments as a meta commentary on the tribes that Hacker News members affiliate themselves with. Imagin

Meta observation : It's really interesting to view these comments as a meta commentary on the tribes that Hacker News members affiliate themselves with. Imagine that instead of being a hacker, Griffith was a financial expert, and instead of attending a Cryptocurrency conference, after consulting with the DOJ on whether or not he could travel to North Korea to teach the regime how to best invest it's money in financial instruments abroad, they told him that wasn't allowed and he went anyway. Would he still seem as sympathetic? Would a lot of HN comments rise to his defense because he was a financial nerd instead of the sort of programming nerd that Hacker News readers identify themselves with?