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Re:Remind HN: Vote by daskrachen on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @08:44AM (#1860175)
So you claim that there is nothing of interest in the topics that are voted on. How do you know that if you don't concern yourself with them?

You can either be ignorant or informed. Not both at the same time. Claiming that everything is boring by way of being ignorant of everything is dishonest.

I am not saying that current affairs are interesting, but I would prefer people to be honestly ignorant to simply being arrogant.

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Re:Remind HN: Vote by jasonkester on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @09:02AM (#1860227)
How about this: Of the topics being voted on that people have gone out of their way to promote, or that the media have covered, none of them struck my curiosity to the point where I feel compelled to dig further into them.

I asked here, on the off chance that somebody has one that they think the HN audience might care about.

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Re:Remind HN: Vote by afterburner on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @11:43AM (#1860870)
Congress votes on the budget, and all new laws or modifications to existing laws. You don't care if any of that gets effed up in ways you don't agree with?
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Re:Remind HN: Vote by Semiapies on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @06:49PM (#1862757)
Plenty.

The delusion that anyone is actually voting between "person who won't eff things up" and "person who will eff things up" is not useful, though.

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