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Because according to the guidelines: 》 On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to
by akiselev 11y ago
Because according to the guidelines:
》 On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. (Emphasis mine)
If it's on the front page, enough people have found it interesting and within the guidelines.
- ojbyrne 11y agoMore concretely, The US Prison System is clearly broken and doing great harm. It's an obvious opportunity for making things better, which can lead to entrepreneurial opportunities.
- lowmagnet 11y agoI don't know about that. Thus far, those "entrepreneurial opportunities" have lead toward more incarceration, not less. For-profit prisons have contracts that guarantee a certain level of incarceration, resulting in occupancy of the prisons they run. This is definitely one of those things that I'd much rather not be in the hands of entrepreneurial entities.
- mikeash 11y agoHere's a counterexample: https://pigeon.ly https://pigeon.ly They're focused on making it easier and cheaper to communicate with inmates, who often suffer from ridiculous price gouging for things like phone calls. It's pretty small potatoes compared to private prisons, but it's something.
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- krapp 11y agoI suppose by definition, if someone finds a story interesting, that makes them a "good hacker."
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