Usually when I saw those calls to hold bankers accountable (especially when referring to the recent recession), they are talking about the executives of the company. While Zuckerberg was an engineer, his day-to-day role now is the executive of the company. So, I think the comparison's to bank executives and tech executives are similar. However, pinning this on software engineers is an entirely different ballgame.

Meanwhile I hope this thread stays at the top of HN for the day to see how the thread summary reads over at n-gate

n-gate?

Don't violate the prime directive.

That’s quite the hate-on someone has at that site. There’s some funny to be had, but it’s mostly very tryhard. The “coverage” of the Vitamin D thing was great, but when there isn’t low hanging fruit it just sort of defaults to generic noise. Without the anger and repetition it could be worth reading, but as it is there’s a lot of predictable 4channery.

Have you considered the possibility that you might not be the target demographic?

What’s the target demographic, and what demographic do I represent?

I'm pretty sure I'm at least partially it. I like to check the site out every now and then to get a point of view from the other side. HN, although having a lot of high quality discussions, can sometimes be a deafeningly loud echo chamber, and getting a different perspective helps to, well, put things into perspective.

People in need of a chuckle?

I mean there's Poe's Law and then..

for me, it's stuck on the security check - or is this the joke?

I think it only does that when linked from this website.

ah, okay, it works now. I wondered about a broken captcha being the joke after seeing their about page: http://n-gate.com/about/

I'd like to go on record advocating both groups be imprisoned.

If in order to get equal liability we have to _really_ advocate for our interests.