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Is this relevant to hacker news?

angel_j 6y ago
Depends, has the majority libertarian sect of HN commentariat decided to join the fascists yet, to protect their lawns and defend their table manners?
- jerf 6y ago
  "majority libertarian" Are you reading a different HN than mine? You can barely find a libertarian post on here anymore.
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  - ianleeclark 6y ago
    It seems "libertarian" followed suit of most other political labels: more definitions than adherents. First you had the left libertarians, who, in typical left fashion, were splintered a million ways. Later you had right-libertarians who gradually splintered a million ways: I remember Gary Johnson being accused of being a statist for being a fan of driving licenses, I've seen minarchists at constitutional libertarians throats, and ancaps who choose to wear a different label. Don't even get me started on what makes justified property and how that divides this label even further. If I didn't include this sentence here, I'm sure I'd get a comment about how none of those are real libertarians or how there is only one true libertarianism.
ianleeclark 6y ago
Seems on-topic to me, but you never know until the the arrow buttons start to be clicked.
floatingatoll 6y ago
Guidelines para 1: > 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 found this story interesting. I didn't know that we had all of these disparate police forces roaming around. I haven't visited DC and they aren't really featured in the media. Seeing some of these various forces show up at protests, and having them behave unexpectedly when asked to identify themselves, has attracted my curiosity. I'm glad that someone took the time to write about them. Note that I'm not prepared to blindly trust Politico's opinions about these policing forces, but opinions are part of what makes this interesting to read.
- jacobush 6y ago
  It's not even 100% clear that all of them are police forces. I could be out there larp-ing and blend right in.
Kapura 6y ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines[1]: >What to Submit >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 found the story intellectually stimulating, and thought others might too. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- throw55432 6y ago
  And yet posts on Kobe Bryant’s death were all flagged.
  - mywittyname 6y ago
    Perhaps individuals should have contributed posts that discuss interesting and lesser known aspects of the man's life and accomplishments. 60 posts of "Extremely Famous Person Dies in Accident" is boring. But learning that said person had a little-know passion for bird conservation or something is interesting.

Depends, has the majority libertarian sect of HN commentariat decided to join the fascists yet, to protect their lawns and defend their table manners?

jerf 6y ago
"majority libertarian" Are you reading a different HN than mine? You can barely find a libertarian post on here anymore.
- deleted 6y ago
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- ianleeclark 6y ago
  It seems "libertarian" followed suit of most other political labels: more definitions than adherents. First you had the left libertarians, who, in typical left fashion, were splintered a million ways. Later you had right-libertarians who gradually splintered a million ways: I remember Gary Johnson being accused of being a statist for being a fan of driving licenses, I've seen minarchists at constitutional libertarians throats, and ancaps who choose to wear a different label. Don't even get me started on what makes justified property and how that divides this label even further. If I didn't include this sentence here, I'm sure I'd get a comment about how none of those are real libertarians or how there is only one true libertarianism.

ianleeclark 6y ago

Seems on-topic to me, but you never know until the the arrow buttons start to be clicked.

floatingatoll 6y ago

Guidelines para 1: > 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 found this story interesting. I didn't know that we had all of these disparate police forces roaming around. I haven't visited DC and they aren't really featured in the media. Seeing some of these various forces show up at protests, and having them behave unexpectedly when asked to identify themselves, has attracted my curiosity. I'm glad that someone took the time to write about them. Note that I'm not prepared to blindly trust Politico's opinions about these policing forces, but opinions are part of what makes this interesting to read.

jacobush 6y ago
It's not even 100% clear that all of them are police forces. I could be out there larp-ing and blend right in.

Kapura 6y ago

From the Hacker News Guidelines[1]: >What to Submit >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 found the story intellectually stimulating, and thought others might too. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

throw55432 6y ago
And yet posts on Kobe Bryant’s death were all flagged.
- mywittyname 6y ago
  Perhaps individuals should have contributed posts that discuss interesting and lesser known aspects of the man's life and accomplishments. 60 posts of "Extremely Famous Person Dies in Accident" is boring. But learning that said person had a little-know passion for bird conservation or something is interesting.