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HN is not an exception. It's the most stark in threads about salaries.
by abjKT26nO8 6y ago
HN is not an exception. It's the most stark in threads about salaries.
- zeku 6y agoI'm interested to see this thread but posted 6 hours later. This happens on forums that are very EU/NA heavy--or games. The thread seems overly negative towards Americans and criticizes them heavily because half of America is still asleep and the other half just started working. If OP posted it later Americans would likely be filling the discussion with the reasons why your complaints are happening. My personal opinion is that US-centrism is obviously a thing, but EU people are so used to seeing it that they then mistake other things for it. This same thing happens with Spain and Mexico as well!
- briandear 6y agoHacker News is an American site, specifically a Silicon Valley site. If you went to a British site, they would be talking about things from a British context. All are welcome, but it’s a bit ridiculous to complain that every conversation on the internet doesn’t support multiple currencies.
- abjKT26nO8 6y agoCorrection: Hacker News is an American-founded site with international community of users. That's not a site for Americans where the rest of the world just comes to watch. Or maybe I missed a point in the guidelines... I'm not talking about currencies. I'm talking about sentences like "if you move to the east, you'll earn...", "in the south, it's..." in conversations with no prior indication that it's just about US and "the east" means "the east of US" and "the south" means "the south of US". Because US is the whole world and there is no need to clarify...