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HackerStreet India has been doing ok for the last one year since launch - http://hackerstreet.in/ http://hackerstreet.in/ The objective was never to become the

HackerStreet India has been doing ok for the last one year since launch - http://hackerstreet.in/ http://hackerstreet.in/ The objective was never to become the next Hacker News or replace it but just to have India centric discussions there. I would say Hackful has an equally good (or better) chance

ma2rten 15y ago
I don't know. The thing is, a German person does not have a lot in common with an Irish person. They have a different culture, different media, a different language, different pop idols. If you are at some place in the Netherlands, it's more expensive to go to some other place in Belgium than to go to another place in the Netherlands, even if those are equally far away. I guess what I am trying to say is, Europe is still not a single country, but just an almost random collection of countries that happen to be geographically close to each other. And even though, that should not matter in this globalized world, it does. So, I don't know if there is a point, to have a Europe centric discussion platform, as opposed to having one for each country.
- dantheman0207 15y ago
  I'm in the Netherlands right now, and it is not more expensive for me to go to Belgium. In fact, I don't even need my passport - just my ID(which I'm legally required to have anywhere in the Netherlands also).
- riffraff 15y ago
  your comment reminded me of a quote from austrian diplomat Von Metternich[1] about Italy during that country's unification period: "Italy is a geographic expression" (as it was, being half a dozen independent states with different money, government systems, economic situations, costumes). And that made me think, maybe the simile should go further: in 1800's italy different people did have newspapers (such as the one that made the above quote popular) read in more than one state to discuss about their situation and, arguably, this did play a role in the subsequemt unification[2]. We could use something like that. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemens_von_Metternich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemens_von_Metternich [2] ok, an army would be more helpful
- Lucadg 15y ago
  from Italy it is often cheaper to go to London, Paris or Prague than from Venice to Milan :) low cost flights beat trains all the time.

ma2rten 15y ago

I don't know. The thing is, a German person does not have a lot in common with an Irish person. They have a different culture, different media, a different language, different pop idols. If you are at some place in the Netherlands, it's more expensive to go to some other place in Belgium than to go to another place in the Netherlands, even if those are equally far away. I guess what I am trying to say is, Europe is still not a single country, but just an almost random collection of countries that happen to be geographically close to each other. And even though, that should not matter in this globalized world, it does. So, I don't know if there is a point, to have a Europe centric discussion platform, as opposed to having one for each country.

dantheman0207 15y ago
I'm in the Netherlands right now, and it is not more expensive for me to go to Belgium. In fact, I don't even need my passport - just my ID(which I'm legally required to have anywhere in the Netherlands also).
riffraff 15y ago
your comment reminded me of a quote from austrian diplomat Von Metternich[1] about Italy during that country's unification period: "Italy is a geographic expression" (as it was, being half a dozen independent states with different money, government systems, economic situations, costumes). And that made me think, maybe the simile should go further: in 1800's italy different people did have newspapers (such as the one that made the above quote popular) read in more than one state to discuss about their situation and, arguably, this did play a role in the subsequemt unification[2]. We could use something like that. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemens_von_Metternich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemens_von_Metternich [2] ok, an army would be more helpful
Lucadg 15y ago
from Italy it is often cheaper to go to London, Paris or Prague than from Venice to Milan :) low cost flights beat trains all the time.