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Comment by NSX2 | Hacker News Reader

That's kind of a non-argument when you consider the majority of stuff found on here most of the time.

Last week it was "Do you watch t.v." that was most popular. I suppose it's relevant for hackers, but then again t.v. gets in the way of everyone's productivity, so it's relevant for everyone.

Ås for the Castro debates, no I didn't watch them since I don't have closed-circuit cuban government controlled t.v.

May I ask how the hell you saw them and know their contents living in Austria as you claim to do?

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I was talking about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118933

So, in conclusion, according to you hackers are monotone, unidimentionsional people with no interest in how the world at large works as long as it doesn't have something to do with eBay or Chinese internet startups or other such things?

Sad. I pity such people then.

I'm trying to be as clear as possible, but I'm not getting through:

There is a world of things out there that is quite fascinating and interesting and very relevant. Indeed, that world is far, far larger than the slice of it that this site focuses on. So much larger, that if everyone were to bring their own personal interests, politics, economics, and so forth here, it might well wreck the community, as has happened elsewhere.

This does not mean that I or others are not concerned or interested in that world, it means that by choosing to focus on our common ground, it keeps the quality higher.

Okay, so I found this awesome, superbly designed YouTube series that teaches you about how money is created and works and how we're in a massive debt problem as people/companies/governments not by accident but by design and if we don't do something soon, the whole system will crash permanently.

But since you'd get offended by such things being outside the immediate realm of programming, I'll refrain from posting it so people can concentrate on hacking while the world economy spirals out of control.

Of course, it will be hard to hack if economies collapse and the power grid goes off, but that's another off-topic discussion.

Will you please give it a rest?

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