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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by dang on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:40PM (#16407835)
Only a small minority of HN users are in Silicon Valley, so your argument wouldn't apply here even if it were true.

When I see complaints like this I always look at the history. Usually the account in question has a pattern of posting flamebait and/or snark. In that case you needn't reach for political bias or 'wrongthink' to explain why the community downvotes such comments. They get downvoted simply because they break the site rules.

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

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by jstewartmobile on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:50PM (#16407932)
Perhaps not valley-centric, but definitely metro-area-centric, which tends to lean agnostic/globalist/liberal/capitalist/etc.

That, and wrongthink need not limit itself to politics. On HN we have it for technologies as well!

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by kelukelugames on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:19PM (#16409792)
Are there user statistics? Would love to see them.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by dang on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:13PM (#16415800)
You mean geographically? We're probably going to look at that again this week. If you email [email protected] in a week or two we could send you the info. I might write a post about it.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by kelukelugames on Monday February 19, 2018 @05:05PM (#16416131)
Maybe with even more detail. Can we do a survey like Stack OVerflow? If not officially then can I do one?
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