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Same page says: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Hard to argue that
by mikl 5y ago
Same page says:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Hard to argue that a book from 1892 is an interesting new phenomenon.
- dang 5y agoThe word "new" in that phrase "interesting new phenomenon" doesn't mean recent, it means different—i.e. different from the sorts of stories that usually show up. For that, a book from 1892 can easily qualify, modulo how well known the book is. Historical material has always been welcome here, just because it often is a meaningful diff from what people are used to. If we start to see a lot of Kropotkin threads, the diff value will disappear and then it won't be on topic anymore. Same goes for any unusual topic. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=diffs%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...