Ask HN: Would you pay $5/yr for HN?

Re:Ask HN: Would you pay $5/yr for HN? by yesimahuman on Thursday February 05, 2009 @11:32AM (#468144)

I can't believe that. If you really wanted to spend the money for hn, which it seems many here do, you could save up 5$ worth of quarters at least.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you pay $5/yr for HN? by tlrobinson on Thursday February 05, 2009 @03:52PM (#468699)

He says "$5 = INR240", Indian Rupees, so I assume he was from India. The cost of living is vastly cheaper than the US in many parts of the world, so $5 may seem like not much here, but Wikipedia says India's average income is $977. So $5 is about 1/200th that. Say you're making $70,000, that would be like paying $350 a year for Hacker News.

Now is it worth it?

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Re:Ask HN: Would you pay $5/yr for HN? by yesimahuman on Thursday February 05, 2009 @04:45PM (#468792)

I replied that I had misread that. That is a huge amount of money.

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