I was only responding to the comment you made, that "some segregation can be effective". It can, but not in the way you're thinking, not for an effect that has particularly great meaning, and not on the lines of segregation you are discussing in this thread.
For what it's worth, I'm betting you dollars to doughnuts that there are people in Silicon Valley cheering on the demise of Zynga as well, so the notion you put forth that only those bay-area haoles are the ones contributing to such blasé discussion is also likely flawed, leaving me with the (admittedly incomplete) idea that what you really want is a Hacker News populated with people who agree with you, which I'd surmise as ill-advised at the least, and unhealthy at most.
No, really I'd just like people to be more thoughtful and less populist/reactionary. I'd like a system which rewards truth and thoughtfulness more, and concurrence with popular sentiment less. I'd like provocativeness and controversial opinions to be judged independently of their tendency to align with prejudices.
Aside: not sure how you're using haole? I've only heard that applied to (unwelcome) white people by Hawaiian natives.
I would love the system you described, you're just not going to get there by bounding geographically, and thinking you can is earning you a lot of negative karma. If the statement I'm responding to here is indicative of your actual position, then it is a noble one -- if you believe that discriminating geographically will help you obtain that objective, then the nobility aspect is out the window.
As for haole, that is exactly how I was using it. The direct literal translation is 'foreigner', to my understanding, and whites just happen to have caught the slur because they were foreign to Hawaii, and annexed the place by force, not without a bit of hard feelings.
For what it's worth, I'm betting you dollars to doughnuts that there are people in Silicon Valley cheering on the demise of Zynga as well, so the notion you put forth that only those bay-area haoles are the ones contributing to such blasé discussion is also likely flawed, leaving me with the (admittedly incomplete) idea that what you really want is a Hacker News populated with people who agree with you, which I'd surmise as ill-advised at the least, and unhealthy at most.