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I hear this from time to time about people who have left, and obviously that matters, but it's hard to get any reliable information (let alone data) about it. Can you say more about this part though?

> there are other perspectives which are more important to me which I'm already missing out on

What perspectives are you thinking of?

>>dang+(OP)
Thanks for taking an interest. Using women as an example again:

Women are by and large outside of the HN uni-silo, and I feel their absence keenly. The thousandth go-round on James Damore is going to play out very differently in a majority female community or a community with gender parity than it will in a mostly-male community like HN.

I don't imagine that the "powers that be" at HN wish for the community's gender skew. However, I don't think that you can counter the powerful forces at play in the wider tech industry without imposing controls on debate which you would find philosophically incompatible with HN's mission.