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by throwanem 1978 days ago
He doesn't think he's getting DDoSed from here. He doesn't respect anyone who comes from here.

Nor should he, not least because the redirect reliably results in ~90% of comments in any thread where jwz is mentioned being about the testicle in the eggcup rather than anything substantial.
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GekkePrutser 1978 days ago
But he refers to DDoS specifically in his eggcup image :)

PS: I have no idea what he means by "finance-obsessed"? I think the community at HN is tech-obsessed which is what I like about it. But finance? This is not yahoo finance or wherever all the finance guys hang out.

It sounds more like he had a clash with someone specific on a finance-related issue and bases his view of the HN community on that. The eggcup is a bit of an immature way to deal with this IMO. Especially as he has good points to make about X11 security, and this undermines them.

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seabird 1978 days ago
"Finance obsessed" is a pretty accurate description of what's going on here. A huge number of people on this site have trouble understanding that there's a world outside of the Bay Area where rent isn't $3000+ a month, and that its possible run a company without involving venture capital and ballooning to multi-million dollar revenues in less than five years. Even the tech discussion here revolves around this stuff -- almost every thread has some mention of "scaling" even if what's being discussed is a niche product that will have a customer base of a few thousand people over its entire life.

I like this site a lot, but I have a lot of patience when it comes to deciphering what is being affected by the Software Hub City Reality Distortion Bubble. Some people don't, hence the eggcup testicle, and people that think something like that undermines the technical argument aren't thinking clearly enough to even debate the technical point with anyway.

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throwanem 1978 days ago
Venture capital is finance. So is cryptocurrency.

I don't know what prompted the redirect; it predates my awareness of Hacker News. I could guess, but why bother? The man has a nightclub to run, and I'm sure that's plenty all by itself to fill his days.

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