This is a bay area centric take on a non bay area centric take.

The typical bay area centric take has the following vibe:

1. I am among the group of most open minded people

2. I admit mistakes, but I don't change my view, that means I may make the same mistakes next time on a different concrete cases

3. Morally I am among the least corrupted

4. I work for the moderately morally questionable firms with nice paychecks, but my moral views are not tainted a bit

5. I never think on the other's perspectives

Is this comment on shipping costs from Asia to Nigeria/Bangladesh based on your experience? If there is a less expensive way then share the approach to help others :)

i don't know how trustworthy rateships.com is, but according to them shipping costs to nigeria and trinidad are similar. and as for the last mile, the cost probably goes up because local shipping is rather unsafe (higher rate of theft of packages).

> from Asia to Nigeria/Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is a country in Asia...

> it's a breath of fresh air compared to the usual bay area centric takes...

HN hasn't been Bay Area centric in years. Honestly, most comments and usership on the platform seems to now align with DACH and CEE.

Presumed RISC-V hate is a perfect example of that - the UCs and CSUs have been using RISC-V in their curriculum since the 2010s becuase Patterson is faculty at Cal and most CompArch courses in both systems have been using RISC-V as a result because 61a/b/c are often used as the benchmark curricula wise. An entire generation of Californian computer engineers have been RISC-V fluent as a result.

The hivemind assumption that HN's user base is "venture capital", "tech bro", "founders", and "Silicon Valley" is around 5 years out of date.

Anecdotally, the vast majority of younger (below 30) founders, engineers, VCs, and builders in the Bay have either not heard of HN or quit it within weeks due to toxicity.

So, you are calling the author a liar?

I think it’s telling the site owner, not us.

Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260816073823/https://rvembedde...

> Request Limit: 500 per minute

I mean that is not even 10 page view per second. We are not living in 2006. Actually even in 2006 Apache with static page would have been able to handle that on a small VPS. And that is excluding CDN.

Yeah the complaints in the original article are valid, but it's like complaints about Android or iOS. There are plenty of valid complaints against either, but neither is strictly better than the other.

So “you were born somewhere ‘unlucky’, that’s how it goes, sucks to be you”.

Is that really your take?

Naïve take. We live in a global neoliberal economy, our standards of living are the direct result of introducing scarcity and other forms of exploitation elsewhere while keeping domestic populations largely unaware of how unfair their position is. There is no ethical basis to simply "focus on ourselves" here. We must do the exact opposite.