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This is a site for programmers, not a world affairs site. "Discussing pet languages" is entirely within the scope of the site. There are about a zillion other
by Turing_Machine 5y ago
This is a site for programmers, not a world affairs site. "Discussing pet languages" is entirely within the scope of the site.
There are about a zillion other places on the web to discuss current events. Maybe try one of them instead?
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From the FAQ:
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
(emphasis mine)
- firebaze 5y ago
- Turing_Machine 5y agoSee my excerpt from the FAQ above. I'm not sure why you think it's important to discuss that stuff here. As I said, it's not like there aren't hundreds, probably thousands of other forums on the web explicitly for that kind of topic. Now, if Ukraine or Russia were using some kind of novel radar jamming technology, or they were using a neural net to control their troop movements, or something like that, that would be within the scope of the site. Two armies beating the crap out of each other is not novel in any way.
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- kstrauser 5y agoI'll be real: I only have so much emotional bandwidth to deal with the flood of news right now. I welcome having a place to talk about literally anything else for a few minutes, if only to relax and catch my breath before I go back to the world stuff.
- firebaze 5y ago
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- cglong 5y agoI disagree with GP, but one of my favorite parts about HN is that it isn't just "a site for programmers" :) > 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.