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I think there's basically two explanations: 1) Most startup people are just evil 2) HN is heavily controlled by Russia The latter is pretty obvious (we're ta
by glogla 4y ago
I think there's basically two explanations:
1) Most startup people are just evil
2) HN is heavily controlled by Russia
The latter is pretty obvious (we're talking English discussion platform where you can create account in ten seconds with no verification and I'm not sure if there's any anti-bot measures).
The former ... most programmers are rich and they are convinced they are rich because they are awesome instead of lucky. Most programmers aren't very social or have emotional intelligence. Most programmers think they are better than others and are prone to "fuck you, got mine" thinking. And look how many startups are based on doing extremely exploitative and illegal things - Uber with illegal cabs, Airbnb with illegal hotels, and so on. Of course those people don't give a shit about suffering.
- localplume 4y agoRussia has been infamous for sowing division in the West using information warfare, and its no surprise that anti-West/anti-American's end up picking up pro-Russian propaganda which has become incredibly apparent throughout this war. Propaganda is designed to build lies from a truth or misinterpreted fact so it seems believeable; its not so much that a website/forum needs to be _controlled_ or _backed_, or that bots need to be leveraged most of the time. Plus, most people think they are too smart to believe propaganda which honestly means they are more likely to fall for it.
- some_random 4y agoNah from what I can tell 2003 broke a lot of people's brains in the same way 2001 did. The people who were against it the whole time got platformed in a way that they hadn't at all before, and surprise surprise some of them weren't actually against it on _moral_ grounds. Noam Chomsky is a great example.