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Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by sebleon » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 8:05 AM UTC

splawn wrote: post #169

sebleon wrote: post #166

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Are these rules posted somewhere? Overall, HN has some really interesting content and insight, mixed in with hateful negativity - seems like talking about the rules would be good, if we wanted to cut out the negative bits

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

lol

Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by daemin » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 1:29 PM UTC

and0 wrote: post #91

daemin wrote: post #44

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Schools were around before washing machines. So just because a woman didn't have a job at an office or other place of employment, she did have a lot of work to do around the home.

Robert Caro's first LBJ book has a great (harrowing) passage on how hard it was in rural Texas for mothers, who often didn't have electricity up until the 30's. It was backbreaking, constant labor to keep everything in working order and preserve enough food for winter.

Sounds like people don't realise how much leisure time we have in our current lives (Myself included). People used to work over 40 hours a week just making sure they could survive through the winter months.

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