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To me the No. 1 reason HN is successful is that it doesn’t have to monetise its users.

This leads to much stronger alignment of incentives between users and the owners of the platform.

That’s not to say it’s not valuable to YC. It provides them with very good marketing to a core demographic they are trying to market to.

Kinda like sports teams run by petro states.

For social media platforms it means that HN’s existence isn’t driven by the need to grow [1], leading to a focus on quality. Hackernews does this using the HN guidelines, which are rigorously enforced.

[1] insert graphic comparing HN growth vs other social media

But what about your family? How would they feel about your skin being used as a hazing ritual?

If it hasn’t been donated by the family, what right does the university have over it?

We are talking about human remains here.

If this was the skin of your grandmother’s grandmother, how would your grandmother feel about it being used a hazing ritual?

Using the balance of probabilities it is likely that the unidentified person’s family would not want that to happen and is likely they would want their grandmother back.

This being a woman is only relevant because, in that era it was more likely to be a woman, I.e. consent was not seen as important when do things to/with women’s bodies.