Hacker News is where the literate, success/money-minded bright people come. Perhaps this is elitist, but I'd bet that this community is thinner, richer, and more socially capable than most communities online. Probably younger as well, since there's the whole core of high school/college YC wannabes, myself included.

Besides us being thin, the bigger problem is that his joke is totally cliche.

In Soviet Russia, cliches are jokes.