Yep. It's a great city though I wouldn't live there due to the summers.
Honestly, the reflexive hate both Texas and California get on HN is ridiculous and a great way to filter out accounts to ignore.
There are valid criticisms to make for both, but if someone only criticizes and cannot point out or conceed positive attributes as well, it's best to just treat that account as a lost cause.
Yep. And it's absolutely being exacerbated to further entrench divisions.
Honestly, I wish the HN/YC moderation team could be explicit in showing how it has taken down certain bot rings as a trust building exercise, because there absolutely are nation state bot rings on HN as well.
Rural Washington, Oregon, and California actually are what these leftists think Texas is. Let’s not forget which state Cliven and Ammon Bundy staged their standoff in.
Honestly, the reflexive hate both Texas and California get on HN is ridiculous and a great way to filter out accounts to ignore.
There are valid criticisms to make for both, but if someone only criticizes and cannot point out or conceed positive attributes as well, it's best to just treat that account as a lost cause.