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GP is relating a personal experience at a SF conference, which is what the article is about. It seems like the most on topic thing ever.

Why are you bringing up stuff about Vancouver in Canada?

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Why are you bringing up stuff about Vancouver in Canada?

Because anecdotes are not useful for anything other than making strangers indignant on the internet.

HN posters used to strive to be better than the comment section of a newspaper web site.

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You want an internet where no one can actually talk about things that happen in their lives. Like we’re all robots and just discuss facts and figures.

Speaking personally, I love hearing about people’s actual experiences instead of a bunch of armchair experts telling other ppl how to live.