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All interesting stuff. But scratching my head as to why things like this end up on Hacker News? Seems to happen a lot these days.
by ourcat 7y ago
All interesting stuff.
But scratching my head as to why things like this end up on Hacker News? Seems to happen a lot these days.
- Alex3917 7y agoMaybe because 8chan was just shut down in a similar moral panic.
- knolax 7y agoLook, I don't know about you, but if I die in a shooting I would prefer that the guy who did it didn't plan it on the same knock-off imageboard that people go to for obscure fetish porn. It's the principle of the thing, I would prefer they have the decency to maintain their own comms infrastructure.
- Johnny555 7y agoI would prefer they have the decency to maintain their own comms infrastructure They will, but now instead of a well known place where the police/FBI know they are going to go, they'll be deeper underground. Sort of like the whole shutting down craigslist and other personals sites because they were a haven for sex trafficking - so instead of having a well-known place where law enforcement could find illicit activity, the activity was driven farther underground and harder to find.
- knolax 7y agoI understand the point but personally I think law-enforcement is equally useless in both situations. With the latter the bar for entry is higher. Argal I'll have the peace of mind of knowing that the shooter isn't an amateur and that they didn't come across the idea while looking for Vore.
- ourcat 7y agoThough if interested in learning more, I recommend watching this 4-part debate on the subject from 1979. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ni559bHXDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ni559bHXDg
- perseusprime11 7y agoHacker News is becoming like a Reddit for tech!
- joekrill 7y agoFrom Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.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. I'd say this type of thing most-definitely applies here.
- ourcat 7y agoIt really does depend whose intellect is being satisfied. This little thread of mine is an intellectual discussion. However, I'm fully aware that many in this community deem fit to vote me down for having it. Curious, indeed.
- ourcat 7y agoI also note that the title of this post has changed since I posted my first comment. To something slightly more egregious to people of faith.
- mb_72 7y agoChristian faith, I presume you are referring to? Because there are many other 'people of faith' who are not Christians, and who won't be offended in any way by Life of Brian.
- ourcat 7y agoIt's getting far too predictable here...
- sp332 7y agoWeekends definitely wander a bit.
- alephnan 7y agoTech people like Monty Python
- hodgesrm 7y agoA lot of us HN readers are geeks and love Monty Python. I still use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch to explain why Zookeeper needs 3 nodes but not 1, 2, or 4. (Though in contrast to the Pythonic instructions 5 is actually OK.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Caerbannog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Caerbannog
- alcover 7y agoI'm with you. Maybe this trend is inevitable because people spend a lot of time here (as I do). It's a forum after all. Focus on tech and intellectual pursuit gets diluted in general conversation. And that's really a loss.