> Everyone has their own conscious and unconscious biases for news preferences.
I simply don't view HN as a place for 'news' in the general sense of the term, but rather a much more focused community.
I simply don't view HN as a place for 'news' in the general sense of the term, but rather a much more focused community.
At least as far as my conscious, I like to use "Does this better help me relate to the world?" as a yardstick.
I don't think anyone would argue that it's best practice to make decisions with substantial amounts of missing knowledge, yet I feel like there are a huge number of startups founded via the "I am a white, middle-class, college-attending male, and this is one of my problems that I want to solve" selector.
That's all well and good, I don't expect every freshman to be an expert on {insert problem outside that subclass} for {insert region outside US/EUR}, but... if we're serious about solving important world problems, then the people who are going to solve them need to at least be aware that it's a problem.
Aka the malaria argument