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I think this is a conversation worth having, but this is a tech news board. This isn't exactly on topic, and is guaranteed to be inflammatory.
by salmonfamine 3y ago
I think this is a conversation worth having, but this is a tech news board. This isn't exactly on topic, and is guaranteed to be inflammatory.
- OJFord 3y agoNon-tech is explicitly not off-topic, even if most (it's certainly not all!) of us have a tech background/current job. Quoting from the guidelines linked in the footer: > 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.
- dang 3y agoHN isn't a tech news board - the site guidelines explicitly differentiate from that in the first paragraph: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. This article suffers from a baity title and sensational opening but then gets pretty substantive and, I think many readers would say, interesting. Topics like this have always appeared on HN and as long as (1) they don't come up so often as to feel repetitive and (b) the article is substantive, I think it's ok.
- salmonfamine 3y agoFair points —- I agree that the article is actually quite well researched and to-the-point, once you get past the title. I guess I just see this exact argument being made all over the place, so I’m a little weary of it. But this article is one of the best iterations of it that I’ve seen.
- xpe 3y ago> is guaranteed to be inflammatory. This is your prediction. It seems overconfident to me.