The age of your account has absolutely nothing to do with who sees your posting.
Making new ids every now and then is strange, there is absolutely no need for that unless you are divulging something that might cost you your job or that you're embarrassed to share.
As for your 'come to Europe' call, America needs critical Americans just as much as Europe needs critical Europeans. The better solution would be to push for change locally, rather than to instigate a brain drain.
Europe has just as many problems as the US does, the only difference is that we do not yet have a European president with sufficient power to wield to cause real trouble. But we're getting there. And then what would you tell any Americans that you've tempted here with greener pastures? If you want to improve the world the best place to do it is right where you're living.
Funnily enough, my HN account is 12 years old and back then I was located in Bangladesh with no concrete plan to come to the US. The US-centric nature of HN (or Reddit, 8yr old account) never bothered me, rather it gave more context to those post/comment tones.
All the Europeans who constantly deride Americans for their government and laws, where are you on this? This is more egregious than not paying for doctor visits IMHO. You have to be 17 to talk to another human being on the internet? Anyone who hosts an application for downloadust verify user identity? This is absolutely nuts.
I was initially thinking like you too. But it likely isn’t true.
With Facebook’s lowering importance and my self getting older, my interaction with non Americans has lowered. If we are talking about the EU only, the amount is minimal.
Thinking about others around me, most don’t have anything significant with EU residents or have one specific set of friendship[s] in the EU.
Yeah I read the threads in my comments when I post, probably every 30 minutes.
I spent a lot of time in the Netherlands. Learned the language, worked at a bunch of startups, started my own company. It's certainly a big part of who I am, as you found out ;)
It's funny because I know you're American because of the obsession of going to different countries like you're collecting boy scout medals. Oh, and collecting ancestries too, since Soviet Hungary happened over 100 years ago? How does that mean anything?
And I talk like this because I'm young and it's fun, I was never a 4channer. It's why Elon Musk does it, you should try it. It does seem to work! And yeah, I would like to not be mean, but like you're making accounts to get around reply restrictions, it's kind of ridiculous
Fixed that for you. I don't like the way the article implicitly assumes an American audience, and so do the comments here. As a European, my email is certainly not safer in the US than in Europe.
If internet discussion is demographically and geographically skewed, I promise you it's not towards Europe... try being a non-American on the internet someday, while people are speaking about miles and states and seasons etc.
No offense was taken in the reading and writing of these two articles. Just trying (and apparently failing) to humorously point out that if most of my users are based in the US, then I probably have bigger problems to solve than a Polish guy having to pick a state at random.
depending on which country, Europeans are not neutral on American politics, so I take your disclaimer for a grain of salt.
For one, it was 100% related to the original comment, as it opined on 'but social media was considered good in 2014'. This is not a 'hem vs us fallacy' example. I wasn't saying either you have to agree with me, or you are the enemy, although hacker news is thinking that way now. I got flagged for that comment, which had no business being flagged.
Downvote me all you want, flag me all you want. you will not silence me, I will no longer hide my silence and I will speak freely.
getting increasingly annoying that most things like these require that participants are US residents. Don't you guys care what us Europeans have to say? I'd would have liked to apply too.
When Europeans communicate with Americans as expected on a social network, where does the data live?
Keeping the data solely in Europe only seems relevant for people who have no American friends who read their posts. As soon as there’s one American in the conversation, or even just someone visiting the US, it’s going to be delivered to the US.
Quick guide to Americans writing for a European public (or who want to make business with Europe, especially Germany).
Writing something like this:
>“I’ve interviewed more than 70 of the world’s most interesting people on my North Star Podcast, built a weekly email newsletter with almost 10,000 subscribers, and my most popular articles, such as What the Hell is Going On?, have been read more than 100,000 times. I’ve done all this in just a couple of years.“
will attract contempt and make you look like a moron. Boasting your achievements in such a straightforward way might be ok for a US public, but in Europe everyone just thinks “so what” and then “what the hell is this person trying to sell me”?
Europeans have one thing in common though: they aren't americans, disregarding the minority of stationed soldiers, diplomats, expats, immigrants, etc.
"As an European" is a good way to state that you are indeed not an american. The general assumption on places like hn is that you are one. It's visible in the topic choices. As an example, the team viewer IPO, even though it's been a multibillion IPO, didn't get into hn while tons of SV tech startups do.
Making new ids every now and then is strange, there is absolutely no need for that unless you are divulging something that might cost you your job or that you're embarrassed to share.
As for your 'come to Europe' call, America needs critical Americans just as much as Europe needs critical Europeans. The better solution would be to push for change locally, rather than to instigate a brain drain.
Europe has just as many problems as the US does, the only difference is that we do not yet have a European president with sufficient power to wield to cause real trouble. But we're getting there. And then what would you tell any Americans that you've tempted here with greener pastures? If you want to improve the world the best place to do it is right where you're living.
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