The only thing you're no longer learning is groupthink. Be glad you aren't learning it. It's easy to learn in person, just parrot what everyone else is saying.

The only thing you're no longer learning is groupthink. Be glad you aren't learning it. It's easy to learn in person, just parrot what everyone else is saying. You don't need HN to learn it. You realize that people game the upvote system right? Writing karma whore comments is so easy when you know the votes. If you really want to know the votes, just reverse engineer the algorithm, it will show you the relative votes.