“Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000”(medium.com) |
“Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000”(medium.com) |
This is my main problem with the tech community, especially HN. Most of the commenters here are intelligent and knowledgable, but many of them seem to be, for lack of a better word, arrogant. I see comments all the time that point out an undressed issue in a post and then go on to assume that they are the first people to think of issue and that it's unaddressable and/or unaddressed. It's not that hard to look past that tone and assumptions to get to the meat of the comment, but it gets old after a while. I don't think this means that all of the commenters on HN are cynical assholes (hell, I do it myself sometimes), but sometimes it seems that way.
It's just that the bar for entry into tech is, really, somewhat high in terms of social capital and intelligence, leading to a group of (generally) well spoken or well written individuals who often reality test their assumptions amongst each other. You'll see similarly well composed (not necessarily STRONG arguments, but well composed) thoughts coming out of similar fields: law, medicine, politics.