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Re:Things You Notice When You Quit the News by jcoffland on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:32AM (#13155810)
> Similar to how most HN readers have very little expertise outside of software engineering, and have said some pretty ridiculous things on other fields.

Wow, that could hardly be more wrong. HN has repeatedly demonstrated expertise in a very wide range of subjects. Sure there is a bias towards software but that's hardly the limit. Even if HN was only read by SW exports assuming that they don't know about anything else is ridiculous. Not that HN is nonsense free. Your comment for example.

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Re:Things You Notice When You Quit the News by adwn on Monday December 12, 2016 @01:03AM (#13155952)
> HN has repeatedly demonstrated expertise in a very wide range of subjects.

Although I agree with this, there is also a lot of nonsense and factually incorrect statements. Not everyone is an expert in every field, and many people will make bold claims about topics in which they're not well versed – even on HN. Unfortunately, this applies to me as well sometimes.

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