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It's 100% pure politics, without any sort of connection to science or technology or startups or anything else that Hacker News is oriented towards. Worse yet, r
by souprock 7y ago
It's 100% pure politics, without any sort of connection to science or technology or startups or anything else that Hacker News is oriented towards. Worse yet, right in the opening section (just above the line) there is an inappropriate reference to current US politics. That's just throwing gasoline on the fire.
- dang 7y agoHN isn't oriented just to technology or startups. That's at the beginning of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. What it is oriented around is intellectual curiosity. There's little of that in current discourse about the word "fascism", and a lot of flame-throwing. It's the partisan frenzy of the moment. I imagine that's why users flagged this submission, despite Umberto Eco being perennially interesting and welcome here.