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HN is not a news aggregation site. It's a site for intellectual curiosity.
by wolverine876 3y ago
HN is not a news aggregation site. It's a site for intellectual curiosity.
- chromoblob 3y ago> HN is not a news aggregation site. Probably not mainly, but isn't this one of its functions?
- wolverine876 3y agoI think we're getting into matters of definition. Do I count on HN to stay aware of current events? No; it would be a very incomplete picture. Much of HN has nothing to do with current events.
- chromoblob 3y agoThis only has to do with mismatch of the scope of HN and the scope that you are interested in. Hacker News seems to me a news aggregator, just with a certain limited scope.
- wolverine876 3y ago> This only has to do with mismatch of the scope of HN and the scope that you are interested in. It's not scope mismatch, it's that HN doesn't present a (nearly, roughly) complete picture of current events in any scope (other than the scope of itself, of course).
- chromoblob 3y agoBut any news aggregator's scope is itself.
- wolverine876 3y agoIsn't that Wittgenstein? :)
- chromoblob 3y agoPlease make at least a vague reference, I haven't read him.
- moritzwarhier 3y ago"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" is a famous quote attributed to him afaik (maybe i mangled it a bit).
- chromoblob 3y agoThis is what happens when people have too much time for HN. It is a stretch to interpret my reply like that.
- wolverine876 3y agoWittgenstein was/is highly influential on set theory incuding, if I recall, something something a thing being a set of itself.
- chromoblob 3y agoI just meant that you seemingly said nothing.
- wolverine876 3y agoThe last part was a joke; you got it, but you didn't get it. :)
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- adamisom 3y agoif you find "a site for intellectual curiosity" to be "jerk each other off"-worthy, your pretention-meter is way miscalibrated
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- imchillyb 3y agoI wouldn't mind a reach-around. I mean, if you're offering. Otherwise, OP's right. This isn't news agg. It's news talky-talk. There is a high degree of back and forth, without all of the mess of that other place. The back and forth requires intellectual curiosity. It's a prerequisite.