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...Why is this flagged?
by CiPHPerCoder 10y ago
...Why is this flagged?
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoThere are a subset of HN users who think HN needs to be 100% technology or it's not appropriate. Personally I find almost any topic fine for HN.
- dang 10y ago> Personally I find almost any topic fine for HN. As does the site iteself: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- 19eightyfour 10y agoTo the detractors: Human life and death is about technology. What's the point of technology? To make life better. This article offers a valuable perspectives on a few thing very relevant to technology. Dating sites, health and cancer. I think if you don't think this article is relevant then you're missing the point of technology. If you're in technology and Building Things for people then you can certainly learn something from this persons clearly written experience. If you don't think you can learn something, that's your deficit. And I think you should reexamine you're openness to learning. Maybe your protest against this article is more about your distaste for reminders of death. And if you can distinguish that distaste from the articles relevance, perhaps you shall see its relevance more clearly.
- ksherlock 10y agoIf you want to read the NY Times, you should go to the NY Times web site.
- dang 10y agoThe NYT is one of many welcome sources here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y agoI'm not sure if you meant it that way, but your comment reads as needlessly hostile.
- aaron695 10y agoIt's at least the second 'life is short' article in a short period on HN. It's possibly pointless (These life is short articles are a dime a dozen but do people actually change their lifestyles?) It's a common meme, dying people pull emotional strings so their stories often travel not on merit but emotions. A few reasons why someone might?