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Re:Colorado bank robber gifts money to passers-by and yells ... by kick on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @08:42PM (#21876157)
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.

My intellectual curiosity feels gratified. I admit I could be a special case, but given 77 others have also found it so, I don't think I am.

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Re:Colorado bank robber gifts money to passers-by and yells ... by jessriedel on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @08:49PM (#21876193)
This is joke news. What is intellectual about? What did you learn about the world?
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Re:Colorado bank robber gifts money to passers-by and yells ... by kick on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @08:52PM (#21876198)
That there are still good people in the world. The man didn't take any money for himself, and sat patiently while waiting to be arrested. If more people in software had this mindset, we'd all be much better off.

Unrelated: the HTTPS cert for your site expired a few days ago.

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Re:Colorado bank robber gifts money to passers-by and yells ... by DonHopkins on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @09:14PM (#21876268)
What's intellectual about changing the HN banner to Christmas colors? Nothing wrong with the occasional festive uplifting article like this to restore one's faith in human kindness.
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Re:Colorado bank robber gifts money to passers-by and yells ... by jessriedel on Friday December 27, 2019 @02:44PM (#21893889)
You're arguing for an exception to the rule rather than this being in conformity with the rule, as kick is doing.
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