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Re:I Quit Hacker News by davidw on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @12:41PM (#1934569)
Smells like politics to me. It's all over the place here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/

If you feel a need to discuss it, perhaps that would be a more appropriate forum?

Not to mention featuring on sites like cnn.com. It's a pretty big issue that is certainly not "startups" or "tech". Yeah, there's tech involved, but the issue is how does society believe it should be used: politics.

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Re:I Quit Hacker News by bballbackus on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @01:49PM (#1934878)
Something occupying /r/politics adds no merit to its political status.
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Re:I Quit Hacker News by lwhi on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @12:57PM (#1934632)
So how do you decide if an article is 'political'?
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Re:I Quit Hacker News by davidw on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @03:32PM (#1935236)
Whether you like them or not, you really can't tell? To me it's pretty obvious what goes where, with a few things that are on the edge, like politics that are really important for tech and startups, like net neutrality. The TSA articles aren't tech or startups at all. I think the "pro-politics" people would still vote them up if there were no scanners and it was only about being groped by the goons.
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