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Anyone know of a "hacker news minus politics and marketing"?
by co_pilates 5y ago
Anyone know of a "hacker news minus politics and marketing"?
- kennywinker 5y agoI hate to be that guy, but literally nothing is apolitical. Hn minus explicitly political content is is just status quo maintenance news.
- Strom 5y agoWhere's the politics in discussing which anchor screw holds the most weight in drywall? Saying everything is political removes any meaning from the word politics.
- davmar 5y agoIf you rent, you can't put an anchor screw in the drywall. Who rents vs. who owns is political!
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoHow many drywall screws? How corrosion resistant must they be for any given environment? Why screws rather than adhesive or nails?
- mmdoda 5y agoWhy would anybody in this hypothetical thread discuss the politics of owning/renting, when that doesn't bring you closer to any solution?
- sonotathrowaway 5y agoI could easily make an argument for price, availability, requirements for local zoning codes. I like Wikipedia’s definition of politics: “Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.” Any subject arising from the interactions of people can be viewed through a political lens of some sort, but the saying you’re objecting to is typically used in the context of the coded attempt to censor or ignore unpleasant news as being “political”, which in truth usually just translates to “I resent being forced to acknowledge this.”
- closeparen 5y agoDrywall? Who would make a house with drywall? In my country everyone lives in a stone palace. Americans are so cheap, interest rates, unions, Boomers, NIMBYs, short-termism, speculation, etc.
- wolverine876 5y ago> literally nothing is apolitical Literally nothing is perfect in the world, but that leaves all the room in the world for variation. No painting is perfect, neither mine nor Van Gogh's - why do people pay so much for Van Gogh's?
- kennywinker 5y agoIt’s funny, because the reason van gogh’s work is held in such high regard likely has a lot more to do with politics than the particular merits of his work.
- wolverine876 5y agoThat is funny! It needs some serious basis to make it more than that.
- co_pilates 5y agoMy eyes cannot roll harder, I think they have also gimbal locked.
- criddell 5y agoSo, no discussion of free software?
- co_pilates 5y agoI just want to talk about how to build cool shit I don't want to hear about licenses or crap about how me sharing my code with restrictions isn't really "open source", so no, nothing about "free software" . Stop trying to "gotcha" random people with stupid questions.
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- type0 5y agoWhat do you mean, freeware?
- polote 5y agohttps://hnblogs.substack.com/ https://hnblogs.substack.com/ Only non commercial blog posts of HN, so no politics or marketing
- co_pilates 5y agoThanks looks great
- enz 5y agoMaybe Lobste.rs.
- co_pilates 5y agoyes, good stuff, thanks
- noodles_nomore 5y agoThe old slashdot fork soylentnews.org is still bumbling along.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI was quite active there when it launched, but the community quickly just become a carbon copy of /.'s complete with all the same problems and bias.
- bengtan 5y agoI curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255