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I personally hate reading stories about NYC, but I imagine this appeals to all the hackers in NYC so that they feel just a little bit better about their $5000/m

by tomc1985 6y ago

I personally hate reading stories about NYC, but I imagine this appeals to all the hackers in NYC so that they feel just a little bit better about their $5000/mo midtown apartments

dang 6y ago
Please don't post regional flamebait to HN. It just leads to worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- whatahypocrite 6y ago
  That's funny I never see you say the same thing when people trash California all the time here.
  - dang 6y ago
    Funnily enough I just ran across https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397901 a couple minutes ago. It's not so hard to find other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21236423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21236423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9939600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9939600 You may be running into the notice-dislike bias (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=notice%20dislike%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), which unfortunately tends to gives people the distorted sense that the community and/or mods are stacked against them. By the way, if you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=likeliest%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

I personally hate reading stories about NYC, but I imagine this appeals to all the hackers in NYC so that they feel just a little bit better about their $5000/mo midtown apartments

dang 6y ago

Please don't post regional flamebait to HN. It just leads to worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

whatahypocrite 6y ago
That's funny I never see you say the same thing when people trash California all the time here.
- dang 6y ago
  Funnily enough I just ran across https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397901 a couple minutes ago. It's not so hard to find other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21236423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21236423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9939600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9939600 You may be running into the notice-dislike bias (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=notice%20dislike%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), which unfortunately tends to gives people the distorted sense that the community and/or mods are stacked against them. By the way, if you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=likeliest%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.