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I see your anecdotal evidence and raise you:

1) I have no idea how socially liberal SF tax accountants are. 2) I raise you that I don't know any engineers that go to church but I know a lot that go to burning man. I can name 12. That's more than "Most" which is not a number in the real number system. 3) I don't know any software engineer who complains about taxes. Well one, Dukeness, but he also complains about the SEC, Weather, Obama, Bush, The Rams, and a lot of other things. 4) I have no idea what you are trying to say. Construction sentence communist. Also who is everyengineer?

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I'm surprised I have to spell this out to someone who writes software for a living, but about 50,000 people total go to Burning Man every year, a subset of which are software engineers. There are something like 500,000 software developers in the country. If fully half of Burning Man's attendees were practicing software developers that would still only be 5% of all developers (of course, nowhere near half of Burning Man attendees are practicing software developers).

Meanwhile, 40% of Americans regularly attend church (FWIW: I am not one of them, though I am sort of idly Catholic). If developers were 1/4th as likely to regularly attend church as other Americans (a stretch, though it might not seem that way if all the developers you know are San Francisco twentysomethings, but I'll stipulate that it's possible) than, meeting a random software developer on the street, you are talking to someone who is twice as likely to attend church as burning man.

Totally unrelated, but only 500k programmers? That seems low.

The point, I think, is that if you live in SF you're probably fairly socially liberal, regardless of job.

Sorry, I didn't realize which direction the hate was going in regard to this article.

Jesus loves engineers! The hedonists bus people who love burning man must die!

This is the problem of replying directly to stupidity instead of understanding the context of the stupidity and then attacking where the wind flys.

The King is DEAD! Long Live the King!

I am a software developer who works with startups who goes to church. So by a loose definition of 'know' in that we both have posted on HN, that increases the count by at least one.

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