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Oh my God, but without HN, how will I validate my existence?

... said me, while sipping expensive wine out of a crystal chalice that came from the 9th century while sitting on a throne made of the finest organic pasture raised bovine hide, while smoking a Stradavarius (the violin, not the cigar).

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I believe you're saying the devil has many advocates here.

Yup, that is literally HN's community in a nutshell.

Not passing judgement, mind you, but at least it isn't a Goddamned echo chamber like most other websites. Well, at least, not nearly as bad.

Yes, but you made the mistake of attempting to be witty, so now you must be downvoted into oblivion!

I will accept my downvotes proudly.

I like that HN is an echo chamber with a multitude of groups yelling at one time. Like binaural beats, something good comes from the synthesis.

> HN is an echo chamber with a multitude of groups yelling at one time

That's not a bad description, at least of one segment of the spectrum.

I find that's how HN is in general. There's a Rust contingent. There's a general FP contingent with a Haskell flank. A few years ago there was a Clojure Independency Party that provided things. I'm a member of the ArangoDB Activists Movement. The noisiest group right now is focuses on Machine Learning with NN. Fun times. Good way to get exposed to different ideas.

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