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This way -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=225879 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=225879

• pxlpshr 17y ago
  I'd understand your point if this story was even remotely associated to HN, technology, or "hacking the system".
  • mattyb 17y ago
    From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: What to Submit 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. 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. I personally don't find this terribly interesting, but billionaire athletes are certainly a new phenomenon.
    • pxlpshr 17y ago
      Worm holes, black holes, supernovas, big bang, the million other galaxies outside of ours — those are phenomenons. Billionaire athletes (through endorsements) are the result of a sharp rise in consumer consumption, media saturation, and globalized market place the last 20 years. How is that a phenomenon?