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No politics, please (especially not of the whiny-extremist variety). The fact that the guy has occasionally whacked together a few lines of python doesn't make
by hugh 18y ago
No politics, please (especially not of the whiny-extremist variety).
The fact that the guy has occasionally whacked together a few lines of python doesn't make it relevant.
- jmtulloss 18y agoWhy no politics?
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- gojomo 18y ago(1) It's considered off-topic by the site guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. (2) It's political silly season -- a presidential election year -- here in the US and every other forum without strong topical guidelines is already full-up with politicized crap. Having it here, too, is redundant and dilutes the unique value proposition of this site. (3) If "happened to a sibling of a hacker" is enough to rate a story here, everything is again on-topic.
- jmtulloss 18y agoAll good points. I wouldn't normally post something that just presents a political opinion, but in this case I felt that the story was more interesting than that. Here's a guy that wrote some software that I and hundreds of others use every day, and that's why I respect him. However, this is a reminder that there are much bigger things than software happening to real people every day, people who are just like us. These are issues we all have to deal with. I apologize if it's not appropriate.
- menloparkbum 18y agoI used to use a lot of Ian's earlier work on webware back in the day. I found this much more interesting than the article about the guy who scrubbed a Lamborghini for 2 days straight.
- olefoo 18y agoI have to disagree with you on this particular story because: 1. The particular incident described is a sufficiently egregious violation of established norms to qualify as a new phenomenon. 2. Warrantless searches; trumped up charges and the willful violation of civil rights speaks directly to the suitability of the US business environment. I'm sorry but if this is the sort of behavior we can expect from law enforcement should the republican party retain power then no business is safe in this country. Your promising startup could be nuked because your main competitor is the nephew of the local capo of Homeland Security. And money is no protection; look to the experiences of the Jews in Europe.
- jmtulloss 18y agoI agree with you except for the warrantless searches part. I think they did indeed have a warrant, which they were able to obtain by infiltrating the RNC Welcoming Committee and getting enough evidence to get a warrant from a judge.
- hugh 18y agoThe standard of the comments in this thread is the best argument against politics.
- davidw 18y agoPrecisely > "Hmm. No. That's called a "revolution""? If people made that kind of silly, hand-waving comment about something technical, they'd be voted down.
- rms 18y ago>Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)