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What is this whining to Daddy shit?

YC News is full of such a bunch of crybabies -- and that includes a lot of the editors.

Why is this SCRIBDed?

It's got to be the dumbest URL I've seen...

http://www.scribd.com/vacuum?url=http://secrethistoryofstarw...

The REAL URL is http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/The_Secret_History_of_Sta...

Non-linkjacked.

Don't tell me it's for traffic reasons -- this story on YC News is not going to bring down anyone's site.

> Victimization in prison isn't part of the state's intent or action.

Let's assume for the moment that this statement is true.

That does not in any way absolve the state from moral accountability when it sends people there. Since prisons, in reality, are set up in such a way that brutal violence is a given, it is neither here nor there what they wish it were like. You sentence people to the prisons you have, not the ones you wish you had.

Imagine you have a time-out room for misbehaving children, which has been infested with human-eating alligators. "It's an unfortunate consequence of your running in the halls that you will be devoured by alligators, but it's not my intent or action. I just mean for you to have a 15-minute time out, and it's not my responsibility if my putting you there -- by force, into what I intend to be a nice quiet room -- is actually a death sentence."

This is ridiculous. They should change the name back to YC News since they've decided to shill for their own investments.

> the purpose of HN is to serve YC -- that's why we don't see ads on the site.

We don't see ads because the site is run by millionaires and hardly takes any computing resources or bandwidth.