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		alex_c on July 7, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification... Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I would actually take it one step further and say it's closer to the process of turning a nice neighbourhood into slums.

pchristensen on July 9, 2008 [–]

Yeah, that's a better analogy, but there's not a good word for that. Urban decay?

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