North Korea just built the creepiest water park you've ever seen

>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.

Re: North Korea just built the creepiest water park you've ever seen

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Post by k-mcgrady » Sat, Oct 19, 2013, 5:52 PM UTC

542458 wrote: post #6

k-mcgrady wrote: post #5

1. How is this creepy? 2. How is this in any way relevant to HackerNews?

>How is this in any way relevant to HackerNews? From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : >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.

A new water park doesn't seem to fit that.

Re: North Korea just built the creepiest water park you've ever seen

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Post by pieterhg » Sat, Oct 19, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

Exactly what's creepy about this?

Re: North Korea just built the creepiest water park you've ever seen

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Post by lowmagnet » Sat, Oct 19, 2013, 6:05 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #7

542458 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>How is this in any way relevant to HackerNews? From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : >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.

A new water park doesn't seem to fit that.

Some people are really into depictions of North Korean life because it's truly alien to them.

Re: North Korea just built the creepiest water park you've ever seen

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Post by UnoriginalGuy » Sat, Oct 19, 2013, 6:13 PM UTC

This article is nothing but propaganda. I'm no defender of NK and all the screwed up stuff they're doing (political prisons, torture, inequality, threatening their neighbours, et al) but they're trying to turn a story about NK opening a nice little waterpark into this dark conspiracy. Plus labelling it "creepy" is frankly just bizarre, and simply does not fit.

If you want to take digs at NK you don't have to be this disingenuous, just remind people of all the screwed up stuff NK actually does to their citizens (like real, honest to goodness screwed up stuff).

Plus traditionally aren't articles about children and women the go-to topic for propaganda pieces? You know, play up the emotive side of it to the point that no rational discussion against the propaganda can take place? Nobody is going to get emotive about a damn waterpark.