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You're right. I didn't make the connection between article and my post. The President of MIT, Rafael Reif, has been an outspoken critic of the immigration polic

• dang 7y ago
  It's not ok to turn this thread into yet another argument about immigration. The trouble is that the larger, heated controversies take over everything else if you let them—they are like black holes that suck everything that comes by into their gravitational fields. Unless we want a site that is only about the hottest flamewar topics—which we don't—the only solution is to avoid the black holes. Then we can discuss the much smaller and more specific topics that are more likely to gratify intellectual curiosity. That doesn't mean immigration isn't important—it's obviously much more important than most topics on the site, which is part of why we have to moderate it this way. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html