I encourage the author to spend an afternoon and evening in Palo Alto as well as in SF and SJ downtown. Please tell us afterwards where you and your family would rather live.
There is this really great South Park episode where one of the characters has the 'ability' to distinct between actual news content and advertisements disguised as news [1].
I feel like this is - sadly - more and more required as well when browsing HN as there seem to be more and more postings where an advertisement is disguised as 'hacker news'.
Can someone enlighten me how the availability of coupon codes for a VPN provider on Amazon is considered news?