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I'll give you one data point that you may want to consider: When I was a high school student, it would have been difficult for me to participate in HN. $5/yr w
by kirubakaran 18y ago
I'll give you one data point that you may want to consider:
When I was a high school student, it would have been difficult for me to participate in HN. $5/yr was a significant amount of money for me then ($5 = INR240). And I wasn't even poor.
Many people I know totally couldn't have afforded $5/yr when they were students. I am sure there are countries where US$5 is even more unthinkable.
- yesimahuman 18y agoI can't believe that. If you really wanted to spend the money for hn, which it seems many here do, you could save up 5$ worth of quarters at least.
- tlrobinson 18y agoHe says "$5 = INR240", Indian Rupees, so I assume he was from India. The cost of living is vastly cheaper than the US in many parts of the world, so $5 may seem like not much here, but Wikipedia says India's average income is $977. So $5 is about 1/200th that. Say you're making $70,000, that would be like paying $350 a year for Hacker News. Now is it worth it?
- yesimahuman 18y agoI replied that I had misread that. That is a huge amount of money.
- yesimahuman 18y agoOh you aren't from the us, I got ya. That would be difficult.
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