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Hacker news!
by erlanger 16y ago
Hacker news!
- campnic 16y agoThis sad attempt at questioning the merit of the article is truly part of the problem with this oil leak. We're talking about one of the greatest ecological disasters in the history of the United States and people seem uninterested. It's pretty sickening. For another perspective see http://www.businessinsider.com/matthew-simmons-dylan-ratigan-deepwater-2010-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/matthew-simmons-dylan-ratigan...
- erlanger 16y agoWell I certainly knew nothing of these developments until they appeared on this website. This is where I go for national news.
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- DrJokepu 16y agohttp://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 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. Constant engineering failures and desperate measures to avoid the imminent unnatural ecological destruction of the Gulf of Mexico is something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity, in my opinion. The point is not the (un)natural disaster (which is while quite sad, it is certainly off-topic here in itself), it's the engineering problem.
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- ErrantX 16y agoIMO this article is fine; it's clearly a problem that interests a lot of us. I'd much prefer this than another bunk article about apple or techcrunch rubbish :-) what usually happens is a more technical discussion appears here in the comments hacker news != exclusively technology news Also; adopting a combative tone in comments is usually frowned on even more than off topic submissions. Just sayin.
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- ErrantX 16y agoYour sounding very angry about it... Perhaps hn just isn't a good fit for you. Anyway; I think were going to see such posts as these. In all honesty I much prefer these to 20 rehashing the same piece of apple or facebook news :p (which is happening quite a lot at the moment). Don't expect people (particularly here) to pay much attention if you sound like a jerk :(. And that is all I have to say on the matter.
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- Tichy 16y agoMalaria happens all the time, the oil spill is a pretty singular event. If there was a sudden massive malaria outbreak I'd hope to hear about it, too.
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- rriepe 16y agoIt's relevant as an unsolved engineering problem. We're all waiting to see which "hack" is going to finally work.
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- tumult 16y agoTotally off-topic, but I'm posting this here, since it's where most of my other posts were: I was being hugely inappropriate and venting my frustrations in an entirely idiotic manner. I apologize (sincerely) to everyone, and their good taste, that I offended.
- campnic 16y agoPhew. Accepted. Lets continue having fun and a sense of acceptance on HN. Its (part of) what makes it better then other sites.