Re:Is There Anything Good About Men?
by wvenable on Thursday August 26, 2010 @01:27AM
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I question it's relevance to this site. There are other sites (reddit, for example) for this sort of content.
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Judging by how much discussion it got the last time it was posted, I think the community has decided on how relevant it is already:
"... Judging by how much discussion it got the last time it was posted ..."
Thanks for the link, I didn't bother checking to see if it was already posted. I notice the sig/noise is a lot lower and only posted 481 days prior but the tone of the good responses are still measured and thoughtful.
Re:Is There Anything Good About Men?
by johnthedebs on Thursday August 26, 2010 @01:37AM
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The article talks a lot about risk-taking, and the cultural/societal reasons that men take more risks than women. That's definitely true of this community - entrepreneurship has more risk-taking than nearly any other field (excepting things like the military).
That, plus it definitely "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Seems relevant to me.
I'm relatively new here and don't read reddit. What about the article doesn't fit here?
Like a political or religious discussion, it's a bit polarizing - it seems to raise the kind of questions where reasonable people would agree to disagree, and we're afraid of not being so reasonable ;)
There's pulp political pieces and then there's intellectual insight about politics. This piece strikes me as having intellectual insight.
For that matter, I think "A Letter to my students" is definitely a pulp political piece. And yet it is on the front page with 150+ points.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631682
Articles like that are why I would be happier to simply see politics banned from this site.
If your concept of "politics" extends to corporate soap operas and "which tech industry company do we like right now", I'm with you.
There's no such thing a nonpolitical issue.