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Can we stop linking and upvoting these article on HN, I've seen several in the last few months. I don't see a clear link to hacker culture, if anything it's le

Can we stop linking and upvoting these article on HN, I've seen several in the last few months. I don't see a clear link to hacker culture, if anything it's less relevant to developers as we often have some form of flexible working already. The link I can see is that it's part of the gender culture war that has somehow become focussed on SV.

gumby 8y ago
> I don't see a clear link to hacker culture It's good advice for how to run my company.
- zimablue 8y ago
  But it's not about that, it's about a proposed law. Anything to do with how to run companies isn't hacker culture, we don't spam posts about the best offshore tax arrangements and the advantages of different board structures. Company stuff is mostly to do with startups and this practise is both less relevant to and less favoured by startups.
  - lovich 8y ago
    It's a proposed change to how to run a company, it's not someone's rant about how someone didn't call them xer and how that person is a Nazi. Your opposition to even seeing this post because it includes gender seems like more of a culture war artifact than the post itself
    - zimablue 8y ago
      As I said, we generally don't post company minutae unless there's a link to tech or startups. It's not opposition to seeing the post, it's opposition to the general trend of putting gender culture war articles otherwise disconnected to hacker news on the forum because gender activists chose to make SV a battleground. It's not culture war to be bored of the culture war.
      - lovich 8y ago
        This board posts things constantly that don't have a link to tech. The only requirement is that it would be interesting to hackers. If this article got upvoted, then it's obviously interesting to the board. This isn't a gender war article either as far as I can see
      - dsfyu404ed 8y ago
        >gender activists chose to make SV a battleground. If you don't like mosquitoes then don't put your company headquarters in the swamp.
partysteve 8y ago
Seriously? Half the articles on this site are about how to work less and/or improve your life. This is one of those.
- zimablue 8y ago
  It doesn't tell you how to work less or how to improve your life. It's specifically about legislation to try and reduce the gender pay gap by changing the law.

gumby 8y ago

> I don't see a clear link to hacker culture It's good advice for how to run my company.

zimablue 8y ago
But it's not about that, it's about a proposed law. Anything to do with how to run companies isn't hacker culture, we don't spam posts about the best offshore tax arrangements and the advantages of different board structures. Company stuff is mostly to do with startups and this practise is both less relevant to and less favoured by startups.
- lovich 8y ago
  It's a proposed change to how to run a company, it's not someone's rant about how someone didn't call them xer and how that person is a Nazi. Your opposition to even seeing this post because it includes gender seems like more of a culture war artifact than the post itself
  - zimablue 8y ago
    As I said, we generally don't post company minutae unless there's a link to tech or startups. It's not opposition to seeing the post, it's opposition to the general trend of putting gender culture war articles otherwise disconnected to hacker news on the forum because gender activists chose to make SV a battleground. It's not culture war to be bored of the culture war.
    - lovich 8y ago
      This board posts things constantly that don't have a link to tech. The only requirement is that it would be interesting to hackers. If this article got upvoted, then it's obviously interesting to the board. This isn't a gender war article either as far as I can see
    - dsfyu404ed 8y ago
      >gender activists chose to make SV a battleground. If you don't like mosquitoes then don't put your company headquarters in the swamp.

partysteve 8y ago

Seriously? Half the articles on this site are about how to work less and/or improve your life. This is one of those.

zimablue 8y ago
It doesn't tell you how to work less or how to improve your life. It's specifically about legislation to try and reduce the gender pay gap by changing the law.