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Re:Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave by overeater on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:36PM (#17223804)
It's the same for many other things on Hacker News. Where it seems like everyone is dissatisfied with higher education, or the federal government, or the evil large tech companies.
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Re:Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave by dang on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:44PM (#17224157)
It's unfortunate because it leads to the impression of a "strong negativity bias", which is true in a Cunningham's law sense but gets complicated because people also negate the negativity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16677130. It's quite typical for top comments to be objections of the form "I can't believe the comments here are so negative!"

The contrarian dynamic is particularly visible in political threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15701584.

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