Explaining a Novel to Pakistani Intelligence
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#2> You don’t know these people, he said. Sometimes it can take them 10 years to get the joke.
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#3What warrants this story making it to the front page of HN?
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#4What warrants this story making it to the front page of HN?
"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."
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#5What warrants this story making it to the front page of HN?
"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." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Talk about having a clause that you can bend in any direction when needed. :/
But fair enough. The story isn't really that uninteresting.
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#6Earlier 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." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Talk about having a clause that you can bend in any direction when needed. :/ But fair enough. The story isn't really that uninteresting.
I greatly prefer "off-topic, but interesting" to "interesting, but off-topic".
Stuff belonging to the former category can be eye-opening at times.
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#7What warrants this story making it to the front page of HN?
If it goes to the front page apparently it IS interesting to hackers.
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#8What warrants this story making it to the front page of HN?
It's certainly more interesting than the n^th announce of the newest minor version of React or any other hyped JS framework.
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#9Earlier 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." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Talk about having a clause that you can bend in any direction when needed. :/ But fair enough. The story isn't really that uninteresting.
Nothing wrong with that. It leaves to us qualifying what makes the cut and what not.
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#10Priority #1 after getting power is keeping it. With power come billions of dollars in bribes, stay-out-of-jail-cards, favors and jobs to maybe millions of people.
You think that these guys are willing to risk all that because you say you have freedom of speech? Nice try.