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>...seems much more like Reddit material. And guess what, that's where it came from - it's been at the top of http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ http://www.redd
by ph0rque 18y ago
>...seems much more like Reddit material. And guess what, that's where it came from - it's been at the top of http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ for a couple of days now.
Yes, I read this article on Reddit before submitting here. But as far as your assertion:
> not quite sure how it's hacker-news material though
I disagree. One of the first questions that came to my mind, and is indeed very similar to the top comment for this article, is the following: how can the world be hacked, perhaps through startups, so that slavery becomes ineffective?
If an article inspires those kinds of questions, how does it not belong on Hacker News?
- swombat 18y agoWord to the wise: Start-ups and hacking aren't the solution to everything. You can't solve all the world's problems with technology. And this one is also one that requires good old-fashioned human work.
- ph0rque 18y ago> Word to the wise: Start-ups and hacking aren't the solution to everything. You're right in a general sense: x and y aren't the solution to everything, for any value of x or y. However, you're wrong in this particular sense: if you would've read the article, you'd have seen that groups are combating slavery by offering microloans to former slaves to start businesses. So, entrepreneurship can be a solution, in part, to slavery.