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HN is quite money-oriented and economically liberal, although nothing beats Blind in this regard. Many FOSS developers don't like this. I think it has less to d
by tormeh 3y ago
HN is quite money-oriented and economically liberal, although nothing beats Blind in this regard. Many FOSS developers don't like this. I think it has less to do with age.
- nologic01 3y agoI find various economic views are represented, but the economic discussions are quite a bit less sophisticated than the technical ones. That's a general pattern of techie discourse: see also, e.g., the absurd simplifications around human intelligence and AI.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoHN is a message board on a startup incubator -- no one gets into startups for fun, they do it to get rich. this comes with plenty of other biases. that said, technical or no, the overall level of discourse is still better than mainstream reddit, and light years better than things like the local facebook page. I may disagree with a lot posted here, but I'm willing to consider the posters here to be on the "peer-level" far more than other sites.
- CM30 3y agoThat feels less like a techie discourse thing and more of an enthusiast/expert discourse one. Put a bunch of experts together and ask them to discuss their field, and you'll get some great discussions. Put the same people together and have them discuss something they're not that knowledgeable about, and well, the results won't differ much from the general population's attempts, except maybe with slightly more sophisticated language. I suspect if you got a bunch of doctors, lawyers, architects, etc to discuss economics you'd get the same results as here for the most part.