[blooalien]

> "There's often a disconnect on HN between what HN users collectively know by virtue of this being their field of trade, and what the average non-tech person is aware of."

In large part, "the average non-tech person" is not aware of a great many things because they actively ignore or dismiss those who know those things and try to warn them in advance of impending troubles they face due to their faulty Facebook acquired "knowledge" about any topic of great importance or significance (until after they're bitten in the ass by it, at which point they blame those same people they previously ignored). Network security issues are one easy example. We're ridiculed as "paranoid neck-beards" for calling out clear and obvious security issues right up until something bad happens and huge troves of personal/private data are leaked or stolen, and then we're raked over the coals for not somehow magically fixing an issue that we were previously told were "unimportant paranoid perfectionism".

[0des]

How about the average journalist? Are they not supposed to check claims and details and assumptions? Bah who am I kidding. Gumshoes never existed.

[thawaya3113]

How much sway does the “average journalist” have on Tech matters relative to, let’s say, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, etc. who have all publicly promoted crypto currency?

Thiel literally was calling out bank CEOs and Warren Buffett a day or so ago for preventing the future.

[otterley]

They’re not preventing the future so much as they are not buying into the hype. That speech from Thiel was totally unprofessional and ill-suited to man of his station. If he’s so confident about crypto, he doesn’t need to insult successful people to achieve his aims. I’ll take the classiness of a Warren Buffet over that meanness any day.