No politics please, we're hackers, too busy to improve the world
Jacques M,Presumably, you have read through the comments of the referenced thread[1].  If so, your essay omits a perspective about politics dicussion that many HN participants have.  I'll attempt to summarize that position:1) Yes, politics is extremely important.2) Yes, politics touches every subject.3) Yes, HN readers perform technical work in programming and hardware that affects politics, and vice versa.4) All that said, the politics discussion on HN and similar sites is low quality, bad signal-to-noise ratio, full of emotional comments instead of insightful ones.5) The overall net effect of political discussion on HN is negative and we'd rather not have 1 of the valuable 30 slots of the front page taken up by a political story (e.g. "Trump denies climate change.")To reiterate the points above, it does not mean "climate change" is unimportant or that HN posters are "burying their head in the sand".  That's a 1-dimensional caricature of the people who'd rather get their diet of political discourse from somewhere else besides HN.Therefore, it's possible to simultaneously hold the view that politics is super important and they don't want it on HN.  Your essay doesn't address this perspective.[1]  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404