Nah...it's more that I live in SF and I have a startup and I'm increasingly meeting more and more of the people on HN, so I don't want to look like an idiot. I

Nah...it's more that I live in SF and I have a startup and I'm increasingly meeting more and more of the people on HN, so I don't want to look like an idiot. I think of HN as online equivalent of a lounge at a university where a lot of really interesting people swing by to hang out and talk about things they care about. If I stop to think about how I might respond in such a setting, if the types of people who are on HN were sitting next to me, I'd probably run most things through my head before they left my mouth :)