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Hacker News is heavily ironic when you juxtapose the audience it attracts with the stated mission of upending norms and forging new territory Countless takes h
by knownjorbist 5y ago
Hacker News is heavily ironic when you juxtapose the audience it attracts with the stated mission of upending norms and forging new territory
Countless takes here in favor of established banks, for example
- lalaland1125 5y agoTheranos was also "upending norms and forging new territory". Are the HN critics wrong about Theranos too?
- tyui44 5y agobut theranos wasn't doing that, they were just running a scam
- tpush 5y ago> stated mission of upending norms and forging new territory HN has no such stated mission. But even if it did, that doesn't mean that every upending of a norm or forging of new territory would be view uncritically. Nothing happens in a vacuum, and new things aren't always better than the old.
- nullc 5y agoThe greatest enemy of upending norms and forging new territory isn't people who are stuck to the old ways, but people who promote or apologize for objectively bad things just because they are new or edgy. When people hype things that stink they obscure things that are actually better and justify others sticking with the tried and true. Sometimes a new thing is just bad and saying you think so can add value to the world -- especially in environments where there are potentially billions of dollars in incentives for people to hype otherwise.