I find them generally tremendously unempathetic people who still feel extremely confident in making grand proclamations about how poor people or people in other countries think and feel.
I mainly remember it for banning a mention of Graeber's Debt for the crime of overstating the importance of hacker spaces in the early computing industry in Seattle and San Francisco haha (probably actually for critiquing money tho)
I thought hackernews was a bunch of libertarians
I mean that person probably is still a libertarian, just smarter than your average one
I find them generally tremendously unempathetic people who still feel extremely confident in making grand proclamations about how poor people or people in other countries think and feel.
hackernews isn't a monolithic group, there exists all sorts of people on there
I mainly remember it for banning a mention of Graeber's Debt for the crime of overstating the importance of hacker spaces in the early computing industry in Seattle and San Francisco haha (probably actually for critiquing money tho)
lmao love to ban books in my libertarian utopia