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> Why does every post on this subject always have someone come in to slam home the notion that the government is always inept in everything they do? Because it
by username223 12y ago
> Why does every post on this subject always have someone come in to slam home the notion that the government is always inept in everything they do?
Because it's being read by programmers, a significant portion of whom are "libertarians." Just ignore them.
- dmix 12y agoHN used to have a libertarian lean to it back when it was a smaller community of programmers who were starting companies like Dropbox and AirBnB, people discussing SICP/Lisp, and willing to fill the homepage with Erlang articles to scare aware newbs. Now that it has been fully transitioned into mainstream site and much more like reddit, it is much less libertarian and more /r/politics. So that generalization doesn't apply so cleanly here anymore.
- username223 12y ago> starting companies like Dropbox and AirBnB, people discussing SICP/Lisp, and willing to fill the homepage with Erlang articles to scare aware newbs. That seems like "greed-heads, nerds, and old-school Usenet trolls."