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Comment by gcblkjaidfj | Hacker News Reader

sadly, HN does not care about politics or real world, just the blinky lights and their 1s and 0s.

There are tons of political discussions on HN. It's a difficult area, because some is on topic while some tends to turn into flamewar that destroys what the site is supposed to be for—but none of that has to do with the community "not caring".

Please don't post unsubstantive flamebait, and please don't post supercilious dismissals. It would be nice if you'd stick to the site guidelines so we don't have to keep banning you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

that's cool and all, but i was pointing a fact about the audience (case in point, it was the bottom comment on the thread). And I didn't put it in a way that gave away if I i think that is a feature or a bug :) take it easy.

It should not surprise you that a group of people who mostly live across the world from Uganda is only intermittently interested in Uganda.

While it's true that few of us remotely understand what life is like for most people, I don't think it's fair to say that none of us care. For the most part, we don't have the slightest clue of how to even help.

HN has a giant global user base. Wouldn't be surprised to find more than a few west Africans here. As for myself, here in northern Europe I'm a lead developer in finance/banking, but for a few weeks a year I'm a farmer in Nigeria. Just because someone is a geek for technical stuff, doesn't mean they have to have such a limited perspective on the rest of the world.

I'm not quite sure why you picked west africans. I'd hope there's africans from all over the continent on here. Personally I'm east african

For sure. I'm not American myself, and I also grew up as an ex-pat in a 3rd world country. While it certainly gave me some perspective, I wouldn't say for a moment that I really understand what it's like to be them.

If things got really bad, my family was always in the position to escape.

My bet is that HN traffic is power-law skewed toward the USA with Europe as a runner-up and then a long tail of everywhere else.

I resent that! I care about $$$ from adtech too.

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