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Interesting, but hacker news? Come on... if I wanted general news, then I'd go to Reddit.
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"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." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is way more of a 'tugs at the heartstrings' type of thing than gratifying intellectual curiosity. Did anyone not really understand that it's rough for people to lose their houses?
To fix things, you first need to hear about the process, to learn intricate details about it, how people end up in these situations and what's at stake. Only then you can become passionate about solving issues that don't involve screens, keyboards and mouses. Do we know it's rough? Yes. Do we understand their issues and have ideas how to fix this? I doubt many of us do.
In my country, if you're late for 90 days with your mortgage payment, one specific bank transfers your debt to another entity which sends you a letter requiring you to pay the entire debt within 1 year or they'll foreclosure on you. I wouldn't have found this today if it weren't for this article. And maybe in the future, the dots will connect and this information will help me improve the lives of such people in distress.
Interesting, but hacker news? Come on... if I wanted general news, then I'd go to Reddit.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is way more of a 'tugs at the heartstrings' type of thing than gratifying intellectual curiosity. Did anyone not really understand that it's rough for people to lose their houses?
Interesting, but hacker news? Come on... if I wanted general news, then I'd go to Reddit.
This comment of yours is even less interesting than the aforementioned link, while occupying more screen real estate. Explain that.
Since i m not going to read it, can somebody please post a tl;dr here: http://tldrplz.com ?
Interesting, but hacker news? Come on... if I wanted general news, then I'd go to Reddit.
HN is mainly aimed towards insightful stories about "hacking" any system that is not tuned properly and still has room for improvement in order to be more close to our desires. Entrepreneurship is the main way to hack society and its systems (I put most politicians in the "those that cannot do, teach" department). But the first step in fixing a system is to find out about its issues. From this perspective, this is ve…
"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." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Stories don't have to be about hacking. In fact, the Hacker News guidelines used to explicitly mention that good hackers were interested in things other than hacking.
I am upset at the trend in HN to increasingly post only technology-related posts. A news submission with no intellectual undertones can be voted up dozens of times as long as it's related to Apple, Android, or something similar. Posting shallow content just because it's tech is the quickest route to becoming Reddit. And that's not a bash on Reddit, I enjoy reddit--but it's not where I normally go for "deeply interesting" content.
Since i m not going to read it, can somebody please post a tl;dr here: http://tldrplz.com ?
Bury it all you want, i have sympathy for the evicted, not this sleazy redditor. Posts like these are the reason i removed 'reddit.com' from my reddits.
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Bury it all you want, i have sympathy for the evicted, not this sleazy redditor. Posts like these are the reason i removed 'reddit.com' from my reddits.
Your sympathy extends to plugging your website and you're calling him sleazy?
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This is way more of a 'tugs at the heartstrings' type of thing than gratifying intellectual curiosity. Did anyone not really understand that it's rough for people to lose their houses?
No, its that, to a lot of us, this is a new part of the story that we've never heard before.
If you haven't noticed foreclosure rates and done some thinking about what that meant in human terms, you were simply not paying attention, to put it very directly. (And maybe you have good reasons; you live in Singapore or something and don't care much about the US housing market)