"Finance obsessed" is a pretty accurate description of what's going on here. A huge number of people on this site have trouble understanding that there's a world outside of the Bay Area where rent isn't $3000+ a month, and that its possible run a company without involving venture capital and ballooning to multi-million dollar revenues in less than five years. Even the tech discussion here revolves around this stuff -- almost every thread has some mention of "scaling" even if what's being discussed is a niche product that will have a customer base of a few thousand people over its entire life.

I like this site a lot, but I have a lot of patience when it comes to deciphering what is being affected by the Software Hub City Reality Distortion Bubble. Some people don't, hence the eggcup testicle, and people that think something like that undermines the technical argument aren't thinking clearly enough to even debate the technical point with anyway.

Venture capital is finance. So is cryptocurrency.

I don't know what prompted the redirect; it predates my awareness of Hacker News. I could guess, but why bother? The man has a nightclub to run, and I'm sure that's plenty all by itself to fill his days.